Actually, this is jenn, art's wife. Personally I like the bawdy songs that aren't shockingly outrageous--the ones where people do a double take, you know? There was a group in the Northwest long ago--Howling Gael. If you can find any of their tapes, listen to "The Three Drunken Maidens", "The Creech in the Creel", and the one about the guy who meets the girl on the road and they play cards. That Ewan McColl record afore mentioned was called "Bothy Ballads", I think. (OK, Art just went and looked, yup, it's Bothy Ballads, and it's got a lot of good ones!) Look for it and others at the library, and the library also probably has that antiquated electronic equipment you need to listen to records! The singer Derek Somerville (I think) did a tape with a couple of terrific ones--about a drunken husband whose wife sews him up in a sheet and beats him into good behavior (my personal favorite), one about a very libidinous rooster, and one about Sister Josephine about a nun who was not what he seemed--Hope you can find that one. I'd better quit, I appear to be doing the Mom thing. Anyway, have a wonderful time, you are certainly heading the right direction.