Stringsinger, your mention of Jean is wonderfully encouraging. Your insight is very fitting for the intentional farming community that I live and work in everyday. We are a CSA run by the mentally ill, and every morning before we go to work, 60 to 100 of us sing together and someone will share a poem. If I stood up and quoted some of the entries from this thread, I cannot tell you how many schizoprenic farmers would become mute and be ashamed of their own voice. These are basic folk songs which have proven to be a crucial aspect of our farm's success for over 100 years. So to all the snobbish folkies, there is a folksinger in all of us, and while we wash the dishes or plow the fields, we don't need permission or need to know every verse of 1000 songs. We just sing...and that's a beautiful thing.