bbc's remarks, make me feel guilty, as I guess they were intended, because like many I wander from honoring the digital traditions of singers past into rollicking around in creativity Present.

Just for the record, I do not see any discontinuity here; instead, I feel that the flippant and irreverent spirit of folkies back through time, who had enough humor about events to come up with scansion and rhyme to commemorate them, is simply extended by the gibes and folderol of the frivolous side of the Mudcat. I grant you this is not scholarly, but I do not believe most folk songs were generated in a spirit of studious rectitude, but rather one of resilience and resurgence, irreverent boyancy and an impulse to outgrow the griefs of history.

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