how effective the Willie O Winsbury tune is

Effective it certainly is, but I've always been a sucker for brass bands playing traditional / folk tunes. An especial favourite is a field-recording I made at the Durham Miners' Gala some years ago in which one of the passing bands plays a medley of Tyneside classics including Blaydon Races & Come Geordie Haad the Bairn with great gusto. Is that a Traditional tune? It's part of my cultural blood & soul and on that criteria alone I'd have to say that it is!

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Is it true that the Willie O' Winsbury tune was originally Fause Foodrage and would have remained so had not the wind turned the pages of Andy Irvine's music book? Less forgiveable, perhaps, is Pentangle's use of Lay the Bent for The Cruel Sister, but I'm not the Folk-Eater I used to be on such matters. Having seen the real Folk-Eaters and Dementors in action on Mudcat has certainly been an education in the deathly extremes of philatelic pedantry!