English folk song will tell of the vicissitudes of the groups in which the folk song arose. Thus any particular folk song may be, as we would call it to day, left-wing or right-wing. So I think, Countess, that you are rather getting your knickers in a twist.

Would you not be better off complaining about the modern performance of folk songs that glorify the killing of the English? - If mirror images of them were performed by the English about other ethnic groups, the said English would be at risk of being charged with inciting racial hatred (compare the time when a re-enactment group sang the English words to "Die Lindenbaum" in the presence of a fairly obviously Jewish accordian player, who was most offended).