A fine song it is. Now that I see the words for the first time I see I've included some mondagreens in my version. One of them I think I'll keep: Oh the devil I would say got his claws in Americay!

But my version, which I got--I'm at work now and depending totally on 15-year-old memory--from a guy who was some sort of archivist for the RTE folk collection (?)--I'll look up his name when I get home--has this line in it "...and all I've now is a wooden peg, and on my soul, it is the Devil's own invention." I can't see how it's a mondagreen. I'll listen to the tape again but in the meantime, anyone out there heard that line before? I rather like it, myself.

David