Ye Gods, what a cavalcade of crap. 3/4 of it seems to have been written by Thomas Moore, A P Graves and several other worthies. Polite drawing room ballads they may be. Folksongs they are not. The problem is that the few folksong texts which are in there are in all probability highly unreliable, and so are the tunes - especially the Thomas Moores. Please, folks, don't go putting any of that stuff back in circulation. If you want good traditional songs from unimpeachable sources, there is any number of CDs, such as Topic's monumental Voice of the People. And if you want to learn folksongs from print (and that's no bad idea at all), go down to your local library and see if they've got any of the collections by Sharp, Kidson, Broadwood etc. In fact you couldn't do much better than acquiring a copy of the New Penguin Book of English Folksongs, edited by Steve Roud and Julia Bishop. It's chock full of really good songs, often in unusual versions, and none of them have been mucked about with by the editors.
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