Malcolm Douglas,Rowans post is not the rest of what Manifold wrote,there are two paragraphs before that are relevant, here they are .
Paterson made another contributionto our folk music too,quite distinct from this one.Several of his own poems refused to lie flat on the printed page,but walked off into the bushand grew themselves folktunes.Some of Lawsons did the same.
Atthe time,Paterson believed that the bush songs were threatened with speedy extinction.The danger seems to be more imminent today.The old songs are tough,and die as hard as snakes do.Sometypes of song which fill a lot of space in his volume are less common now;we hear for instance,far fewer Jackaroo songsthan he did.Treason songs on the other hand,still clandestine in 1905,have been more easily collected in recent years.Balladswhich he noticed asbeing sung to overseas tunes have since grown tunes of their own.some of his texTs look unweildy,as we havebecome accustomedto versions prunedand compressedby anoyther thirty years of singing.Into the bargain,thereis quite acrop of new ballads sprung from the old stock.But the changes are all normal and natural songs of life.
this just as relevant is as Rowans addition.
and now it is all in context ,it doesnt alter the fact that Manifolds comments about the exclusivity[no schoolteachers,no hillbilly addicts,not to be taught in the schoolroomunless as arare treat are questionable.