Thanks, Malcolm, my view exactly. I just didn't get heavy about it because I figured there might be some detail I didn't know.

These are the cute ways traditional songs get "written" retroactively by recent composers and snapped up into the Big Music Machine. It's only one of a thousand deceiving anecdotes out there circulated for self-serving reasons or through sheer ignorance.

Seems we're battling the tide, like King Canute -- whose name was presumably Cnut or Knut to start with. History glimpsed as one long string of misrepresentations.

Bob