I get increasingly tired of the way people get forced into one or other positions.

For the record, although my musical tastes do tend to take me towards the more traditional and away from "Dylan/contemporary protest" and try to do my best with a song or tune, I am one of the "find a set of words on the dt and sing it", types rather than a song researcher.

I did however learn a few things over here and they included Malcolm's comments on the shortcomings of copy pastes from unknown websites, problems with wrong attributions, etc. as well as becoming more and more aware of people who really do want to study a folk song in depth.

From my point of view (and from my side the folkinfo song database had this in mind to), there is no hassle in trying to provide accurate information. No, I'll go further, I believe whether a "grab any copy" like me or not, we should try to provide the correct information rather than repeat information known to be wrong..

If that makes me a professor, I apologise.