I have a similar problem, Les - I've dropped a few old songs after being told they were 'Bellowhead Songs', including Cholera Camp which like so many I learnt from Songs & Rummy Conjurin' Tricks only weeks before Bellamy died. But then again, I made a special point of learning Fakenham Fair after our Norfolk holiday back in March when I was serenading Rachel with it around Morrisons in Fakenham (at least the 10% of it I had at the time). I even pride myself that I sing selling the chances rather than telling the fortunes as Bellowhead do, though I have tweaked it here & there (I tried for the brass lamp, and the fine Spanish shawl, and the Owl in Gold Filigree : such things we saw, if not in Fakenham itself, then very near it: I believe we saw the owl in the giftshop of the Pensthorpe Nature Reserve).

I doubt I'm too bothered about Usher's Well as I sing it too my own tune, likewise The Birth of Robin Hood, which Spiers & Boden did some years back. JB's version of Frankie's Trade on OAT was lately derided by certain members of the Shanty Scene who seem to have claimed the song as their own, which is a shame. I prefer JB's take on it entirely, and though it featured in a Kipling:Bellamy show we did at Fylde last year I've now dropped it entirely simply because I can't get JB's version out of my head.

Still, there's never a shortage of songs to sing, or ways in which to sing them. And I'm speaking very much as a common-or-garden session singer here; it's worse when Rachel & I have been pouring heart & soul into (say) The Waggoner Lad only to come off stage to find many in the audience have been under the illusion they were listening to a Joan Baez song - even the younger ones. 'I'm only 50!' I protest (directing them to the Harry Smith Anthology). 'Way too young for Joan Baez.'