This object of this thread is to remove folk song discussion from the song wronger thread.

In that thread many posters jumped on the waggon to criticize songwriters.

So here, us songwriters can get the chance to criticize folk songs and folk singers.

The fact is that most 'folk songs' were collected over a relatively brief period of our history. Much of this collecting was done many years ago when people expected different things from entertainment.

There was no TV and no Radio and no recorded sound when many folk songs originated and people wanted ballads and sagas that would entertain them for fairly long periods.

Nowadays our listening habits have evolved and our needs are for shorter songs. No longer are audiences prepared to listen to eternal ballads of Dickensian boredom. Many 'folk songs' would have died a naturally deserved death years ago had it not been for sentimentalists trying to recapture a long long past.

In fact as far as most communities go many of these songs are already dead.