"No, I don't think that was David's post. Although it expresses the same kind of cultural folk tyranny that David espouses, it was too articulate and coherent to have been written by David.
Unless he's much craftier than I think he is, but I really doubt it." (Don Firth)...do you have much respect for the late Ewan MacColl (see my Top Friends for a link, if you like) Don?...at his, among other English folk clubs of the time, folks were strongly encouraged to perform from their own culture.
To Stu and Surreysinger, etc.: I began writing my chronolgoical collection (covering from 0-35 years of age) in the 1990s, so, obviously, the early ones are retrospective, and the latter contemporary - hence they have the season and year attached to them (see, if you wish, "A South Shields Walkabout", e.g., just posted on The Weekly Walkabout thread, below the line).
To SPB-Cooperator: I've only "transcribed" when the DigiTrad, or other, notation goes below middle C - the lowest note on my tenor-recorder/English flute...as I've said, my way is to keep trying to play as I sing and sing as I play the TUNES.