Folkinanity?

Folkinanity is for those who believe in Folkin' - they're the Folkineans, as oppose to the Folkeans who don't do a lot of active Folkin' as such, but do a lot of Folk - maybe too much, which can be bad for you: if the Folk's too pure it's difficult to handle, but you don't want the impure stuff either because no one knows what it's been cut with. Folkin' is a positive world view - it smiles and celebrates on a joyful, intuitive level; it welcomes and accommodates all comers and eschews celebrity squares and those who take things (& themselves) too seriously.

I worry though. Earlier today I picked up my recently acquired 1986 reprint of the 1974 edition of The Faber Book of Popular Verse (I keep my 1971 first edition for Sunday best) and when I read New Year's Water on p.279 I immediately tried to find our copy of the Waterson : Carthy Holy Heathens CD because I recall a sleevenote with to the effect that the title of their song Residue was a mondegreen of something, but no one knew quite what. I failed to locate the CD, but looking on Mudcat I see that particular mystery's already been dealt with. Like it matters, eh? But, to the Folkean, of course, such things do matter - for they are, like me and countless others, helpless victims of a dark dependency on Folk that drives them to obsess over such irrelevant minutiae and, worse still, find considerable meaning therein.

Rest assured, I am seeking a cure, and, when I do, I intend opening a clinic devoted to providing essential care for those poor souls similarly afflicted.

Meanwhile - Keep on Folkin', Folks!