You're welcome Ferrara. What do you mean fixed the typos, those 3 o's in looosened aren't supposed to be there? If there are any other typos I won't take credit for them, blame Sandy (ha, ha), I took it all off the jacket from some Folk-Legacy recording of Ray's from back in 1982. You should still get the whole shabang from Sandy if it's still available. She gives a meaning to all those words that looked like typos & says what the connection they have to the song itself, like the Master Kid whom like the cat symbolizes the link between the forces of evil & the witch & how the left-sided shoe (leften shee) has evil influences. She also says like you suspected that she has "omitted, added & telescoped some of the verses". And as Dick mentions she says that she has "set this magnificent ballad to the tune of a Breton drinking song - I have no idea what it's called". I met Ray a few years back at a NEFFA fest., what a gracious outgoing energetic tike this chain smoking little women is & such a big voice in so small a frame that when she weaves a song around you it's a double shock to be taken in so quickly & quitely in such an unexpected manner that one sits in wonder about the way they've just been overcome in so gentle a fashion. When I first heard Ray do Tannahill's "Are Ye Sleepin' Maggie", also on the same Folk-Legacy LP, Maggie Thacher was still holding court & Ray in her "deadicating" the song to M.T. showed an insite into what keen wit her sharp tounge can toss. A recording or a performance by her should not to be missed. Good Luck with the song. Barry