Hmmmm - and a big, long Hmmmmmmm it is too, as I'm sure you're all too aware, but I must acknowledge that impulse, and respect it, without bringing in my usual model-railway and historical re-enactment analogies - themselves hatched, incidentally, in the company of a Traditional Singer and Storyteller of Great Renown who thought much the same way as you did and counselled me strongly against thinking otherwise. I always thought he was being too kind myself, and too deferential in passing his own stuff off as Traditional when it was quite obviously his own work. Thus I might say Tradition is the Stuff that Songs (etc.) are Made On, or that All is born of Tradition - allowing that The Tradition that gave us the singular masterpiece of King Henry or Butter and Cheese and All isn't something we can tap into at our leisure.