Dick, it really, really isn't about judging the songs themselves. As it happens, I think Bert Lloyd wrote some lovely songs, even the ones he claimed were traditional. If they're good songs (and they are), by all means sing them.

All this really relates to is trying to properly attribute the songs as either Trad or not. I'm afraid that what I've read and heard through several respected sources, not just the two scholars cited in the article above, is pretty convincing evidence.

It's not an attack on Bert Lloyd, nor is it meant to disrespect his great contribution to the folk revival, it's simply an appropriate re-assessment of SOME of his work, based on what we now know.