You will be relieved to hear that it's finally beginning to sink in. Thanks Jim. Only last week the wife of my best friend (a Romany Gypsy) said to me that I could do what I wanted with her families songs.
So I said make a million quid then, she said except that! You are right it probably does not make too much difference to the informant.
when I recorded Bill House he was highly amused that I was in raptures over his version of 'One night as I lay on my bed' his favourite was 'Timothy Briggs the Barber'
As for Bert, well he's still a hero of mine, but a flawed one. I'll just have to get over it.