"He'd never get another go at my club, just for singing Tam Lin!"
A pity - it's a good ballad that demands to be sung well.
If it can't be sung in a folk club, then we condemn it to death.
I don't believe that any folk song is "too long", though there are many that sound as if they are because they are sung badly - some of them only have two or three verses.
Jim Carroll