It's simply an old folk song, CS, as opposed to a new folk song. They're all written by singer songwriters, so it makes absolutely no difference really. The first ever folk singer was a singer songwriter, so all this ARSS stuff really is just plain silly, always has been..

If Reg Meuross, for example, had written some of his songs hundreds of years back, many traddies would be drooling over them, poring over word, every note, reading into the songs whatever they wanted to be there. But for some strange reason, his folk songs, about real people in real times, as well as real people from times gone by, don't count as 'folk' music...

And as for the hysteria surrounding Mumford & Sons, where certain traddie folks are practically apopletic with rage...well, let's not even go there..because it's nonsense.

Love the songs you love, be they old or modern.

They all belong to the Folksinger..