The lines are not so clearly drawn in the Western Isles, Allan. What's the ancestry of many of the Protestants in Northern Ireland? Where did the monks come from, the ones who settled Iona? And how far is Iona from Ireland - and for that matter, how far from Glasgow and Edinburgh?

Which came first, "Red Is the Rose," or "Loch Lomond"? And the list goes on and on. When I sing "Dirty Old Town," I'm thinking of the town I'm from, Racine Wisconsin - is that wrong?

Good songs have a universality, with different meanings for different people.

-Joe-