Yes, and Jim Mageean was giving evidence for Rod Shearman, and the barrister implied that Jim wasn't a full time folk singer because he wouldn't have been good enough to make a living from it....

If people have cribbed songs off recordings which attribute them to particular writers I think it's really lame to attribute them to the performers without mentioning the writers.

I've been "given" a song from an apparently trad source, but which turned out to have been written by Gregg Butler....

Kitty