Jack Campin "The tune was not intended to have interpretive subtleties. It was written to be played en masse by a fiddle school (as their closing number). Expressive refinement doesn't happen when there are 20 or 30 people playing in unison. There can't be anything there that isn't in the notation."

I don't think Jack is correct here. He may dismiss it as a tune to be played en masse by a fiddle school - is that such a bad thing? But that doesn't mean it was deliberately written as one. As we have seen, it can lend itself to many different performances.