Could a Copper Catch a Crooked Coffin Maker

Could a copper catch a crooked coffin maker, could a copper comprehend?
That a crooked coffin maker's just an undertaker who undertakes to be your friend.
Some lyrics from another fellow from Tyneside. The late, great Alan Hull of Lindisfarne. That's Lindisfarne the band not Saint Aidens Holy Island off the Northeast English coast.
I am perhaps using the Tynesider epithet a bit liberally but I think it applies to the ISB, which is where I am segueing from if you can remember back that far. I don't believe it appropriate to designate all Scotsmen as Tynesiders, but surely Glaswegians and perhaps even those from Edinburgh are close enough to the border to be fitted with the moniker. What the hell? I'm a Yank. I can get away with it.
Allright, sod it! Alan Hull is definately a Tynesider but the Incredibles are simply Scottish.
Anyway, if you're a fan of good solid mid-tempo rock infused with British Isle flavour created by the use of fiddles, banjos, mandolins and squeeze boxes of all descriptions, then chances are you'd enjoy Lindisfarnes first two or three Lps.
Like John Lennon, Alan Hull had a real knack for Lewis Carrol-like wordplay wedded to melodies whose beauty kind of creeps up on you over repeated listenings as opposed to grabbing
you by the heartstrings at first hearing. His most popular song Lady Eleanore from the album Nicely Out Of Tune sounds as fresh today as it did in 1971 and would stand up easily to anything put out by Coldplay, Travis or Star Sailor, who, to my ears, are the descedants of bands like Lindidfarne, with the Fairport Convention/Steeleye Span influence tuned way down but not altogether missing.
I'll cut to the recommendations. Nicely Out Of Tune and The Fog On The Tyne (from which the lyrics that begin this post were nicked) the first two LPs by Lindisfarne are highly recommended as are Alan Hull's first solo LP Pipe Dreams and the It's Jack The Lad Lp by the band of the same name, a Lindisfarne spinoff band. In fact, as good as the first two Lindisfarne Lps are, I think I would steer you in the direction of Pipe Dreams and It's Jack The Lad first, although however you get it, you must find a copy of Lady Eleanor. It is easily one of the most beautiful songs in the entire rock and roll (in all its permutations) canon. Right up there with Waterloo Sunset by the Kinks. Yes, it's THAT good.
Ta Ta for now.