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Yes, the original (Ewan MacColl wrote it, as others have said) had "the Salford wind", not "the smoky wind", so it's definitely about Salford. I understand that MacColl liked the change to "smoky" though, because it made it more universal. Really, is there an industrial city anywhere in the world...

@BigBagOfPus: There's a whole pile more pop songs covered by the so-called "sensitive female chord progression", which is the same four chords in yet another order: vi-IV-I-V (as they're in a minor key purists would probably notate it i-VI-III-VIII, but it's the same chords)

@MrGinatello Yes, it's credited music Music by Miles Davis, lyrics Bert Jansch.

@TedRob1958 Jacqui is still touring with Jacqui McShee's Pentangle. It's a very different sound to the original Pentangle, being sax & keyboard led, but is still true to the folk-jazz fusion and the stunningly good musicianship -- I saw them live the week Bert died, and it was an incredibly movin...

@MythicalManMonth Finding a part of the brain that is not bound to causality wouldn't account for free will. If something is not caused then it's not caused by the will. You've replaced determinacy with indeterminacy but neither allows free will in the sense that Fodor understands.

@mnemonix8001 Quite; if anything it's a Martin Carthy cover, but essentially it's trad.

This version is much too fast -- was the bar about to close?

Yes, that was a fine performance -- who was it?

@Sshelly: Yes, of course this was a joke. The Scaffold were essentially a comedy act -- and a wonderful one. Listen to Lily the Pink, their biggest hit (but not the "Wiggy" version, which jumbles the lines around).