dead right Jack B- we all know how much of the 'traditional' repertoire is the end result of academics like Lloyd & MacColl taking what they found (& all credit to them for finding it in the first place, by the way!) and adapting (and INVENTING much of it to suit their own theatrical/political straitjackets.
Folk doesn't really exist except in people's heads & there's a lot of rubbish in there- just look at this thread -and it's my last visit- I have my cardigan & slippers waiting in the daycentre....