Fair enough BB, I was being provocative - although I seemed to have failed to provoke.

Locking up is an extreme version of my position. I came to it on thinking about what are generally called the First and Second Folk Revival. I am not sure that the first one was much of a song revival where as the second one certainly was. Sharp collected songs and published some. He sort to pass them to a largely middle class audience via piano led performances and teacher training. I guess the latter led to some working class children learning versions of some old songs.

I guess it's wrong to critisise Sharp with the advantage of hindsight so I will call it an observation. Has the Second Revival returned folks songs to the working class? Probably not but loads and loads of songs were sung at loads of folk clubs and in that sense the Second Reival has been and continues to be more successful.

L in C#
PS Spot on Greg, as usual