Malcolm Douglas ,a duplication of ROWANS post ,if you wish to have ago at me,Iwould be happy to meet you personally for a duel[JOKE].
Malcolm,you are unecessarily patronising,as has been pointed out to you before, by another poster.
Folkie Dave ,We must have different editions of the book,in the book in my possesion ,he most certainly does say[Publication does a doubtful service to folksongs.It preserves them ;but itpreserves them dead,like stuffed animals in a museum.It brings them to a wide audience;but this includes so many of the wrong people]
That is manifolds exact words, exact punctuation,so stop wasting time,and stop nitpicking and trying to score points.,
the fact that I used commas instead of semicolons,does not alter the meaning of Manifolds words,The meaning is perfectly clear.
Malcolm Douglas,if you are genuinely concerned about quoting out of context,why not quote the whole article,all two and a half pages of the introduction[particuarly the preceding two paragraphs which deal with Patersons poems/songs and how they walked off into the bush and became folk tunes ].
Rowan himself is being selective,just as I was .