The point isn't only where the music was collected from but who wrote it and who sung it, your sainted 'process'. The subject matter of folk music is almost universally anti-establishment and from the point of view of non-landowning 'peasant' classes. It may be an inconvenient truth for the centrally-heated, car owning, baby-booming meritocracy but a truth it nevertheless is.

Keep a bag full of wry for those choruses Shimrod. Or maybe the processes natural conclusion is God Speed the Volvo?