My mother was taking classical guitar when I was 10 (1966). She was also a gifted singer and her guitar teacher assigned the John Runge English songbooks for study. I love the songs and became hooked. When she became pregnant with my brother and could no longer hold the guitar, she let me take her lessons including the Runge songs. I then went to the library and found the Child ballads,which led to an independent study of Tolkien's sources, a semester in England mining the Bodleian, etc etc It really was a seed planted and still thriving as I have recently published the first in a series of books about Maine "Bygone Ballads". Thanks for this information about someone who "lit my fire"