"I'm a good singer of Traditional Songs"
Self praise is no recommendation..... and all that.
For the record, I said what I thought of your singing without knowing who it was. Somebody put up three singers and asked what I thought of them; I gave an honest opinion, and would do so again in the circumstances. Had I made my own singing public by putting it up on uTube, I would excpect the same treatment. If you don't want opinions, stay at home and sing in the bath.
"We either want to be back there with the happy beer drinkers...." speak for yourself - lice, plague, cholera and sour beer....
I enjoy Shakespeare, but I don't want to be in Medieval Denmark or ancient Rome or Bronze Age Scotland..... they're good stories well written.
Do we have a cut-off date after which we must stop enjoying a piece of music, or a play, or a novel?
Many of our folksongs and ballads have provided plots for some of our greatest literature, and continue to do so.
A lovlely little film, a romantic comedy called 'Truely, Madly, Deeply' was released some years ago - a straight lift from 'The Unquiet Grave' (except for the dead husband sending his wife out to video rental shop to get him and his dead mates classic films to watch on TV).
It would be a sad old world if we weres stuck with Corrie and East Enders and counld no longer enjoy Dickens and Hardy.
Jim Carroll