Well actually that is not quite the way I would describe it. One of the best things I ever saw in a folk club was Taffy Thomas/Tim Laycock doing the Long Larkin Ballad with Magic Lantern - its all down to how its done. And that song ended up with people being burned alive!

I'm not saying these things are without value. Its just that song has never seemed rise above providing five or six minutes of insight into an extremely miserable landscape.