Dear Bald Eagal:
Many songs that seem to be not political are when you know the history, for example, many hunting songs are about enclosure - for example Johney of Bradys Lea, and some love songs are vield nationalist songs... so, for what its worth? The point is folk is not one thing or the other, except of cource the song, the one thing or the other!
So I went to a wee girl, that I for some time knew
to tell her what me mother was advising me to do
Whats your errand cried the sister,
whats your errand cried the mother
and to cut the story short says I
its the one thing and the other
Larry