Barry, I don't often try to explain myself since my day job is to help others understand themselves.But now that you've brought it up, what I enjoy and the way I approach controversy of almost any kind is to argue for a larger truth, a kind of dialetical materialism where matter over mind is elevated and reality is constantly changing..(except with my teenage son , of course). I would be terribly constrained by someone telling me the right way to sing a song since song exists for me in the constantly changing present...sometimes people think I argue because I know what's right...but I like the process much more than searching for the one and only truth...As to the issue of Eliose, I wondered why Eliose would be linin track because I didn't think women did that sort of thing in the days of railroad building. Were they prisoners that the gangboss drove from a women's prison? Just what the heck does that line mean anyway? .Did Zora hang with Leadbelly? By the way I found a couple more versions of Johnny Lovely Johnny in the Irish Woman's Songbook by Carmel O Boyle while we DoneyGals were practicing last night.Should I post them? harpgirl