"YOU said Nellie Dean & suchlike are not folksongs. I"
They aren't - unless you can specify why they are -
Repetition has nothing to do with folk or tradition - Nellie Dean is an old pop song - if we didn't already know that we have a recording of Walter Pardon insisting it (and others like it were
Nellie Dean doesn't need an ethnologist to decide what it is - it is what is
Jim Carroll