DavidG, sing it the way you want...I guess the worst that can happen is you'll be compared to the Pogues. I don't think that's such an awful fate at all.

Awful fate?? You seen Shane McGowan?? There's a face only a mother could love..... Teeth like tombstones, a voice like a bag of gravel being tipped down a corrugated tin roof and ears like a London Cab with the doors open....

And the Pogues have corrupted/altered more lyrics than any Microsoft Spellchecker.....

LTS