I've put together out-takes collections of several of the bands I have been in, including Fairport. While the out-takes are interesting, you can usually hear why they didn't make the final cut. The song that was left off Full House though, was a real gem -- on a par with the great Dylan out-takes that were cropping up on bootlegs; songs that were sometimes better than anything on the album. Written in the curious archaic yet modern English at which Richard was becoming so adept, 'Poor Will' was 'Desolation Row' transferred  to Tyburn, a fragmented but seamless flow of images that made the song multi-faceted and evanescent. Like the album's sleeve notes the song is threaded with references to the traditional songs in which Richard was then immersing himself. RICHARD That's right -- "no lover come over the stile" -- the lucky escape in 'Prickle Holly Bush'. That's one for musical train-spotters. ASHLEY The lyric is probably the best Richard had written to date, though he's surpassed it many times since. So much so that we considered it for Shirley Collins' album [ No Roses ]: it would have been the only non-traditional song on the record. PEGGY It was interesting musically, too. Very understated and then exploding with a guitar solo as aggressive as anything Richard had recorded at the time. It is telling perhaps that the greatest 'lost' Fairport track seems today like a harbinger of the topic that would occupy Fairport two albums later. For those who