Many of the songs named in this thread are not folk songs. Opera arias, composed cabaret songs, stage songs come together with folk songs, but generally the kind of "folk songs" such as Thomas Moore's songs, The Fields of Athenry and Danny Boy in an Irish collection, Greensleeves in an English; Dumbarton Drums in a Scottish. I don't despise the songs I've named, but you know they are not the whole thing. If somebody is interested in Italian traditional songs, two sites of interest are Felmay (www.felmay.it), where you can find recordings by the best revival groups and a few collections of field recordings, and Musical Traditions (www.mustrad.org.uk), a wonderful site for the traditional music of the English speaking world, that has also some field recordings of traditional Italian music. Roberto