What I actually said was that Jim was a traditional singer; I said nothing about this particular song - it was you who assumed I thought it was traditional.

Bullshit. Now I understand the spat about posting irrelevant videos. If you post a video in this discussion, introducing it with Here's another new Jim Eldon video - the last English Traditional Singer & an example to us all:, one naturally assumes you are posting something you would like others to think of as a traditional song. If you didn't want people to think that you think this song is traditional, you should introduce with something like Here's another great Jim Eldon video I'd like to share. Not traditional at all, but entertaining nonetheless.

I have to say, SS, it gets harder and harder to refrain from ad hominem attacks against you when faced with this kind of thing. Let's see if I can do this politely: What in the world were you thinking? Why are you wasting everyone's time? If you don't think that song is traditional, why did you spend any time at all defending it by blathering on about individual creativity being part of the folk process and tradition? Can we change your name to Red Herring?