if you had a road map that took you to Venezuela instead of Basingstoke - you would discard it.

folksong is a living artform. your roadmap has taken you to a comfortable inlet. folksong comes from the bustling throng of humanity on the highway.

you have a definition of folk music that excludes all the working classes of England, apart from those who look as though they belong in a black and white photo of the 1950's.

in other words you have cut off the source. none of your folksongs were fashioned other than by people of lowly origin, who took the creation of song seriously.