This is an extraordinary resource! Thank you all so much for your postings. I had I'll Tell Me Ma on my list, as well as the Rattlin' Bog. I also remembered some songs I knew from scanning the Scots kids songs in the dbase. I have a nice Irish version of Scarborough Fair that I got from Frank Harte. Also Brian O'Lynn - I know I have the words down somehwere at home. Funnily enough I first heard Brian O'Lynn from Norman Kennedy. Norman always said that the Scots, Irish and English borrowed songs that they liked freely from one another, and sometimes the songs were localized to the point where you couldn't say where they had first originated. He also said that he wasn't above singing an English song now and then, provided it was a good one.

Oh! I was really excited to see the words to Fan-a-Winnow. I was collecting weaving and spinning songs several years ago for a concert at a museum and Frank Harte gave me a number of songs. He sang me a little scarp about Barney the Band-tier, thinking that the band tier was a weaving mill job. But I asked Norman Kennedy about it and he said no, the band-tier is an agricultural job - the fellow who braids and ties a band of wheat or barley to tie up the shooks. But the song scrap was charming and I always wished for more of it. I should love to have the rest of the alphabet someday!

I suppose I might introduce myself...I am a singer of traditional unaccompanied songs, and also a weaver and spinner. I studied weaving and spinning with Norman Kennedy for many years and we remain good friends. I also had a chance to work with Frank Harte at Augusta two years running and I learned a lot of songs from him.

Thanks again for all the bits.