I suppose that's an age-old question, Giac. In some ways, we wish that all music could be free for everybody to hear - but on another plane, we know that musicians and record producers need to be able to make a living from their efforts. It's available on a wonderful CD by Harry Tuft called Across the Blue Mountains, available from Sandy and Caroline Paton at Folk-Legacy Records.

Sandy might disagree with me, but I don't see that posting the basic melody here would cause harm to anybody. If somebody can e-mail a transcription of the tune to me, I'll post it in Mudcat MIDIs. As far as I know, it's not available in songbooks.

On the other hand, if it were a pop song, you could hear it on the radio before you bought it - so I'm torn in both directions on this issue.

-Joe Offer-