There is another song called "The Fairy Tree" recorded by Mary O'Hara (will Alice ever stop referring to Mary O'Hara?) and is available on the CD called A Song For Ireland. It begins "All night around the Thorn Tree, the little people play, and men and women passing, turn their heads away....
it describes it as a hanging tree, etc, but 'Katy Ryan' dreamt she saw the Son of Mary, and he asked "Why should they be afraid, when from a branch of thorn tree the crown I wore was made?"

Another 'fairy' song I like is The Shortcut Through The Rosses. I sing an English version of Monday, Tuesday, that I wrote because the tune is so beautiful and the story so great.

alice