Long and long ago, I was gifted a set of mixed tapes of Festival music. There were around a dozen of them, and they remain one of the neatest gifts I've received. Unfortunately, several years later the person who made them asked to borrow them back as she'd lost a couple of the originals, and upon inquiry a month later when I was missing them terribly, informed me that she'd never intended to return them in the first place.

That'll teach me.

A decade and change later, I've finally reassembled most of what was on them... except for a couple tapes and a some nagging songs that NO ONE could identify for me. I googled... oh, how I googled.

One in particular tended to float the refrain through my head - and today, I finally hit paydirt on it. Some random guy had the lyrics on his blog, and thankfully included credit to the author. Once I had that, the rest was a snap... although I think that with anyone as big as Maura O'Connell apparently is, it really shouldn't have been this hard.

A performance of "The Scholar" on YouTube

Finding this makes me incredibly happy. I intend to order everything this woman has to offer.