Was reminded of this by my mom telling me that she wanted to get my sister a Great Big Sea album, but anyway…
The song “Process man” or “Chemical worker’s song”, is known to me only in the version that Great Big Sea did on the album ‘Up’. It’s a great song, and I like it a lot. Looking around on the net this evening has told me that it was composed by somebody named Ron Angel in the sixties, that it’s considered a ‘UK folk standard’, and a bunch of stuff about the meaning of the lyrics as social and labour commentary.
My question, though, is - is there anything in the folk tradition of this song in terms of performing it as a round? Or was the melody based on an older folk song that was sung as a round? The band doesn’t really do it that way, and yet it didn’t take me too long to figure out that I can start singing one line after they do, and if I don’t get lost or flub a line it really sounds great that way. Can’t imagine that this was a spontaneous discovery on my part.
So - I’m tossing this one out to the teemings. I imagine we’ve got some dopers who are knowledgeable about folk music of those old isles among our company - care to enlighten me??
And please, please - don’t feed this post to the crickets! 
Chime in even if you have nothing more to say than that you like the song, or you think I’m crazy and it’s not a real round for such-and-such reason, or… just say something!
