The problem is that folksong is so much more than 'part of the history' of anything.

Its a huge body of work. its a set of techniques. its a mode of expression. Its an artistic movement of the 20th century that spills out into the art, the drama, the literature, the performance modes, the politics and so many of the aspects of the life that we lived in those years.

Still if it gives you pleasure - looking at it that way, as something that can be contained in definitions - fair enough.

I always felt part of something bigger than that. I suppose it comes from a religious upbringing, you look for Jesus's face ever day in the margarine tub.