I'd like to qualify what I said about bringing up his creativity. Whilst none of us nowadays treat Bert's material as direct from oral tradition, posting individual examples as Gibb and Brian often do is still very interesting and welcome.

On a slightly different tack those producing tradsong anthologies on a regular basis like Nick and myself often collate several versions for performers. The big difference between us and Bert is we always go to great lengths to flag up where separate parts have come from in the tradition, and we keep any further interference to an absolute minimum, i.e., occasionally altering nonsense to make sense, or perhaps restoring an obvious rhyme.