You seem to be referring to the big ballads in your last statement. Nope - I'm referring to our finely crafted traditional songs As our knowledge of the oral tradition onLy dates as far as the beginning of the twentieth century - anything before that is a guess and way out of the reach of definitive statements A "broadside hack" was a derogatory term for a bad poet – not a reference to the language of the time Jim Carroll
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