Thank you so much, all of you, for replying to my thread.

John MacKenzie, your use of coal-tar soap qualifies you to sing 'The Lumberjack Song' and 'Damned Old Piney Mountain'. Congratulations!

DaveRo. Peter Bellamy was a long time friend. I knew him from his teenage years and followed his career very closely. He sang, with a lovely girl called Fiona, at my wedding, and I'll never forget the huge box of Folk LP's he gave us as a wedding present. Absolute treasures, all of them. To me he was one of the true geniuses of the Folk-scene. An artist of consummate skill and brilliance. Underrated only by those with tin ears and tinsel souls.   I have difficulty in thinking of anyone in the same league when it came to composition and 'presence' and the ability to 'live' a song. Only Keith Marsden, perhaps.

Yes, he unquestionably did write the 6th verse of what he called 'A Conversation With Your Mother', and I recorded him singing it around 1987 0r 88 at a club in Cottingham. East Yorkshire, or maybe it was in Hull.   

All the best.

Black Jake Two Fingers of Birtley, Tyneside, Norwich, Hull, Yorkshire and Marsden but now back in Norwich.