To Jim Carroll: Thanks, Jim; a little more of the picture emerges....

To Nerd:

>> I wouldn't put anything past either of them when it came to reworking a song into something they liked better. <<

Indeed not. And nothing wrong with reworking at all. So long as we don't lose sight of the songs that were actually sung in the tradition. If we do that, we risk being diverted down attractive but entirely misleading pathways such as the Reynardine "werefox" example, that I'd love to read about if I could make the link to your article work, Steve! (We must talk about this stuff sometime).

>> I would say, "friend." <<

Without question.