Jim Eldon was the best at this political protest song lark, telling it like it was by way of basic reportage. He added various lines to this effect to his classic cover of Brice Springstine's Dancing in the Dark (...Working for the Grocer's Daughter I just can't feel proud of myself, we came like lambs to the slaughter, now we're just stock upon her shelf...) which rang very true at the time, but one knew that Jim was in there with the rest of us, writing about experience & simultaneously operating as a one-man Folk Process rather than the card-carrying paternalistic righteousness of Ewan MacColl. Next to Peter Bellamy, I'd say Jim Eldon's the greatest Traditional Folk Singer & Idiomatic Folk Song Writer in the UK.