its only a BS thread if you decide that folksongs are a closed book. Somebody wrote them back in the mists of time and that was it. that's how they stay.

why shouldn't the whale get caught in the Greenland Whale fishery, why shouldn't the girl survive her night out in The Banks of the Ohio, why shouldn't Frankie shoot at Johnny and miss completely?

As for the Wibble Wobble Gypsies, She runs off with them, develops a weight problem, there is a climactic fight in the overweight gypsy encampment, lunch boxes flash in the romantic campfire light, passions explode, guitars strum, and the lady runs off into the darkness, later to emerge as Slimmer of the Year at Weightwatchers-oh!

Showing at a folkclub near you...