I'm with Joe on this one. RUS isn't a bible and was never intended to be a bible but it gets people singing.

I understand those of you who say the versions of songs in RUS are not accurate. But how does that make you different from those who treat RUS as a bible? Aren't you holding up something else and giving it that same status?

Sandy, you have been singing some of these songs since they were collected and must be singing them correctly. How many of them have you heard in a different form on someone else's recording. Have you tried to take the artist to task for changing the song? If not, why not? That recording is now doing the same thing that you have accused RUS of. It is passing an incorrect version of the song to along to generations who will think that it is correct.