Exactly, John.

Why do you utter "traditionalists" in such a pejorative and scornful tone, Al? They are the people who are singing folksongs in any sense that can have any referent at all. You can call your songs 'folk' till you are blue in the face [and very funny you will look], as loudly and as defiantly and as selfrighteously as you like; but it will still be a grade=A catachresis. If I call my cat a dog [free country innit], she'll still prefer Whiskas to Boneo and say miaouw instead of bow-wow and catch mice instead of chasing rabbits.

Mind you, she'll go on loving me just the same. Just as you love calling something folk when it isn't. But that's coz neither of you understands.

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