With you on that, George. The oral tradition has never stopped assimilating new material in those few areas left in the country where it continues. West of Sheffield the farming community has a strong mixture of poems set to music, sentimental Victorian songs, Music Hall, Carols, oh and a few of what the rest of us call 'folk songs' which are in fact the pop songs of the early 19th century as printed on broadsides and sung in the street by ballad singers commercially.