I've noticed that it's the "white middle class" who seem to defend the "working class" while the actual working classes are...ummm working.
How come the dispossessed didn't notice they were dispossessed until it was pointed out to them, by, dare I say it, the lefties in the crowd?



"Arthur Quiller-Couch's introduction to The Oxford Book of Ballads"

so happens I own a copy of that edition, so I'm overly familiar with the introduction, and believe it or not, the songs.