I also heard about this on Folk on 2 on Wed night. The examples they played were Barbara Allen by Jim Moray and Seeds of Love by Bella Hardy, both very personalised updated arrangements/rewrites, so your BA rappin on Mars would fit perfectly, Jon. I look forward to hearing it.

How about starting our own Mudcat competition to update these 3 songs, just for fun of course.

Bert, what a silly bee you have in your bonnet!!!

Some of us are doing our best to preserve those songs that deserve to be preserved from any century. Mudcat is also trying its damnedest to that as well.