Jim carroll
Same with the Roud Folk song Index.
Whenever anybody has asked about British folk song I have guided them to Steve's index and told them that they would find a fairly comprehensive referenced list of songs and where they are to be found.
Now, it seems, it would be dishonest of me to do this - that his list is far from comprehensive, or is misnamed and only deals with a certain, unspecified type of folk song.
To be complete, he would have had to include - what - The Hank Williams song book, The Best of the Fifties, Max Miller's Little Ditties, Songs From the Victorian Parlours, Elvis's Greatest Hits......?

So are the songs of MacColl or Seeger or Pete Smith or Matt Armour or Ed Pickford or Helen Fullarton or Graem Miles or Jerry Springs or Don Lange or Dick Snell Eric Bogles or Miles Wooton or Con 'Fada O'Driscoll or Adam McNaughton or Sean Mone or Fintan Vallely or Tim Lyons or Brian O'Rourk or Gordon McCulloch or Enoch Kent or Hazel Dickson or Colin Meadows or Donniell Kennedy or Jack Warshaw in the Roud index?