Not sure this is the place Vic but I honestly believe if Steve Roud's FS in England is accepted uncritically it will act as an elegy for British folk song as we know it
I couldn't accept it anyway - I'm far too old to be clambering up and down steps to store our existing folk song books in the loft as they would become totally redundant.
Just been listening to a wonderful radio tribute to the work of the late folk song collector, Tom Munnelly and it's made me realise that, despite the problems with getting song to catch up with th music in Ireland at present, the Irish treat traditional our songs and singers with far more respect than they do in Britain
See you on the appropriate thread before long, I hope
Happy New Year all
Jim Carroll