"Tam Lin is about fornication with Fairies."

And how many times did Sharp or anyone else collect Tam Lin from a traditional singer? Bronson lists only three credible versions, and none of them from England.

"He was quite selective in what he collected, and chose to present."

So he found lots of versions of Tam Lin and songs complaining about poverty, but deliberately suppressed them? As did, presumably, all the other collectors from that day to this? Hard Times of Old England is a "particular Copper favourite" only in the eyes of people seeking evidence that the rural working class sang protest songs about their condition; in terms of Copper repertoire it is an aberration. Tam Lin and Hard Times of Old England are both, in their different ways, more appealing to the ears of a 21st Century urbanite than Buttercup Joe or The Farmer's Boy, but the latter are more representative of what country singers actually liked to sing. Sometimes the truth is inconvenient.

Everyone who comes to this music from the outside imagines their own version of the village. A village in which the locals went around singing "Tam Lin" represents a far greater leap of the imagination than anything Cecil Sharp might have dreamed up.

This may well be an exciting project, but it isn't well served by its publicists coming up with such sloppy misrepresentation.