From Nancy Nicolson in Edinburgh, 8 Jan 2013.
Happy New Year 2013.
This is my first ever foray into Mudcat and I'm astonished to find references dating back 12 years to a number of my songs.
You may have ceased to look for a response, but here it is.
I am pleased to have a gig tonight at Leith Folk Club as support to Dick Gaughan. What a way to start the year!

Here's the gen on the song:
Last Carol

Britain's first experimental fast nuclear reactor was built just 30 miles from our croft in Caithness when I was a teenager. The huge, famous dome on Scotland's North Coast was familiarly known as FRED (Fast Reactor Establishment, Dounreay).                     With the demise of our former world-class herring-fishing industry hundreds of local people found work there. That did not mean that they swallowed wholesale the assurances that it was safe. Their choice was Dounreay or the Dole, so they worked there .
Much later, the officials started to say that its purpose was directed towards the supply of electricity. They were foolin nobody.

In 'Last Carol' I wrote the refrain as a stern old Scottish Psalm, the verses as a bright, brittle carol.
This was to reflect the black truth of what was happening as set against the cynical spin, lies and assurances of Government and UKAEA in selling us the Nuclear Industry
UKAEA: United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority.

When you sing the song, sing "merry" but think and mean "bloody"
                              
                         LAST CAROL

refrain
                Mushroom cloud and heavy water                
                My last son and your last daughter
                White and sere the blasted ground
                Husha-Husha all fall down

verses                
                Merrily, merrily Nuc-e-lear Power
                Merrily, merrily Kilowatt Hour
                Merry little factory for nuclear fuel
                It will cook your merry goose and not your merry gruel

                Merrily, merrily scattering plutonium
                Al-ways on my patch, never on your own one
                Set in merry glass and merry sunk in merry granite
                Can you, merry, say it's merry, safe? You merry cannot

                Merrily, merrily critical condition
                Merrily, merrily nuclear fission
                Merry, merry, merry, merry four-minute warning
                Never, merry, not a- merry -nother merry morning


Nancy Nicolson, written   early 1980s