I used to sing the former and the previous Mrs Musket used to sing the latter. I suppose I must like them. I don't play the oboe on the basis I don't like the sound. (Oboe. Noun. Kindling for a bassoon fire.)

You are sad in my opinion for dismissing my comment that folk clubs should be a good night out and entertainment, which has always been my experience. The provenance of the song is of interest, whether it harks from Somerset with a similar song from Sussex showing the popular story line in c18 England or if the song was one of the first Paul Weller wrote for acoustic guitar and voice after The Jam split. Either way, it's a person or persons getting up and trying to entertain a room of people.

In a folk club.

Playing folk.

As expected.

"In the folk idiom"

Or folk, as most of us call it.