I share the "Well, blow me down" reaction to Brian's revelation about MacColl's tunes for 'Scarborough Fair' and 'Four Loom Weaver'.

The most drastic difference between the latter and Lloyd's "Poor Cotton Wayver" to the 'John O' Greenfield' tune is that one has 4-line verses and the other 6-line. Would MacColl have thrown away two lines of each verse? Or had Whitehead done that, or someone else at an earlier stage?

Richard