"Its quite lost over here"

There's no doubt that you're the one lost. I've already described one magical moment when an audience of about 2000 people, without songsheets or accompaniment, sang, with harmony, a song they most likely learned from a record or (even more likely) a sappy movie. They knew all the words. Sorry, but you don't get to dictate what music will last with "the folk," or even how "the folk process" will occur.