S O'P:
old man... old man... old man... old man...

Kindly desist from being a patronizing shit.

I use the term old man out of deep respect and sincere deference. The term comes from the film For a Few Dollars More - it's what the Clint Eastwood character calls The Colonel (Lee Van Cleef). Go watch it & figure. Whilst I might not always agree with Jim, I regard him as a foremost authority on the subject of traditional song and his work in this field is in every way exemplary. Thus do I call him old man.

No doubt I'll be trounced for saying this, but that's the truth of it.