Actually though - I'll fess up. i was thinking about textiles.

Like i say, it wasn't a very intelligent or informed set of thoughts. Malcolm was trying to think of songs to do with the textile industry that existed in Yorkshire.

i suggested a song called The Doffing Mistress. Malcolm said, no that was a Belfast song.

Naturally I bowed to his superior knowledge, but afterwards I got to thinking about all the Irish people I had met over years of gigging round Sheffield and Yorkshire generally. And I wondered if the song could have migrated.

if you say there was no textile industry in Sheffield, I'm sure you're right.