No, Tim Leaning — on the contrary, I think they manifest an extraordinary talent — often unsophisticated [as I have often also said, I greatly value the way that traditional lyrics have a marvellous knack of teetering on the very edge of doggerel but never quite tumbling in {think e.g. of the marvellous exchange between Willie & his brother who just happened to be standing on the shore at 1 o'clock in the morning as Willie fell off his horse into Clydewater in Child#216 — quite absurd as Child points out, but how superbly effective}]; but with a wonderful, unique sort of sensitivity and exquisiteness of their own. But 'unsophisticated' by no means means 'second-rate', but different in kind from the more polished creations acceptable in more refined circles. It is surely this distinctiveness of tone and approach which all of us who so love them value so much. Is that not how you see and 'feel' them also? If not, what do you appreciate about them and think makes them different from other types of creativity?