Good thread this...so many points. Yes, I think the change to Richard Thompson's lyric improves it for me, but it's not what he wrote so I wouldn't touch it. Imagine everybody going to a sculpture park equipped with hammer and chisel and doing their improvements to the Moore or the Frink sculptures. In the end there would be nothing of the original left, just a pile of stone chippings. I don't believe any work of art was ever created or improved by a comittee.As I've said I don't care how the music is handled, innovated, etc but the WORDS are the whole point of a song as they are of a poem, a play, a novel etc. I'm baffled today by audiences who sit and listen to a whole concert sung in a foreign language as is a lot of world music today. Its like putting on glasses at the cinema to remove the colour from the film,or watching a foreign movie with no subtitles..but that's just me you see..a wordsmith.