Yeh absolutely Tim - to me, Pulp's Common People song is the best folk song of the last twenty years at least. Even the the really good writers from the folkscene seem to go for a 'quaint' quotient, so you get them going on about poachers, sailors ploughing the deep, - in fact bloody anything except what relates to the folks going up and down aisles in ASDA.

However those old songs are part of the heritage of our country - like Shakespeare. Teachers are useless at teaching Shakespeare - I suppose they wouldn't be much better at teaching folksong Still I think we ought to have a go.