Given that Cecil Sharpe bowdlerised most of what he collected, to comply with Victorian moral standards, or what we are asked to believe were the moral standards of the era, we are in fact indebted to a seventeenth century clergyman, who had the nous to save the original, unexpurgated versions.

Who is able to say that there will not be another saviour out there, who will fill in the gaps in our knowledge?

We will only know when it happens, so, NO! Traditional song is not finished until we are so far in the future as to be certain that there is naught left to find.

And that IMHO will be Never!

Don T.