Malcolm, please expand on the above either here or at my site (although in either case, I think it would warrant a thread of its own).

Certainly from my viewpoint, at folkinfo, I would prefer fact to fantasy and I can only imagine that Mudcat would be the same - I think most of us have more interest in truth than stories, no matter how fantastic they may be.

I make no secret of the fact that I am very ignorant about folk songs but aim to do well and find your comments disturbing (in the sense of giving out miss-information)

Jon