VirginaTam, as an English person who loves traditional English music I think....


.... that you have as much right to sing it as anybody. Just the same as Will Fly has the right to play funk'n soul & blues from New Orleans & Memphis or my local community choir has to sing an African chant. So what if you are originally from America? Sing the songs you love, and make them your own.

If you sing from the heart, and put the work in to make your performance as good as you can, then I defy anybody to say that your doing so shows disrespect for, or somehow diminishes, the material and the tradition to which it belongs.

(And as a slight aside, but because I'd noticed you asking questions about this sort of thing on other threads to, I'd say - don't be afraid to sing songs in your own voice, and your own accent. No need to put on an english accent to sing an english song. And if you're learning stuff off a cd that somebody else has recorded, don't be afraid to play with the words and the timing and the tune a bit. My own personal hobby horse but I'd far rather people explored their own interpretations of the material than trying to produce a copy or 'cover' of a version that somebody else has aleady recorded...)