Plain wrong like Elvis's German in Wooden Heart, you mean????
Sorry, I guess that was uncalled for. Fair play to him, he did have a go.
Having said that, Tunesmith, I know more than a few people who are more bothered by British performers ignoring their own tradition/s in favour of almost anything else.
But, as I understand it, the old traditional singers sang what they liked Because they liked it. Well, some of them did.