"Sorry Steve, life really is too short - go and read a few books.
"Child Ballads had their earliest version as street literature, which at first you denied."
No Steve - another dishonest distortion
My argument throughout has been and remains that first printed versions are no indication whatever that this is where the ballads and songs originated - which has been your arrogant and unsubstantiated claim throughout - I have taken a fair amount of trouble to give reasons for my opinions - you have fallen back on telling us who backs your claims; the shape of scholarship to come I presume?
"I should add that the information on rungs and protruding bricks is on p74"
So you want me to purchase a book or join a club in order for you to make your point on information that runs contrary to that available elsewhere, how helpful of you, it compares with all the other responses to requests for information to back up your claims - Sorry, I don't buy it - literally, and no apologies forthcoming.
You demand 20 songs that give indications that the folk made their own songs - you fight every one you have been given so far, often with dishonest and evasive objections.
You do not respond to any other points, you move the argument away from your original claims when the going gets tough, you ignore the obvious contradictions to "commercial origins".... - you refuse to make your case which is indication enough for me that you do not have one.
Jim Carroll