Hi Richard,

The thing is, do we need to know the answers to your two questions?

With respect, I think that they are somewhat peripheral to what is really going on here. Thread, after thread, after thread has asked the same question over and over again, ad nauseum, ie. "what is a folk song?" And a perfectly good answer has been provided many, many, many times. It's just that some people don't want this answer - they want another answer. They think that if they keep asking the same question, someone will eventually 'crack' and give them an answer closer to the one that they want to hear. The only reasonable response to such a tactic is to keep giving them a consistent answer - let's see who cracks first!