2Walter Pardon learned songs he liked. "
You haven't read a word I said about Walter Stanron - shame on you
Walter gathered all his family songs as a collector would - he wrote them down because they were his families' songs, not because he "liked them" but because he thought them important enough to preserve and pass on
Something I didn't put up from the 'Sinple Countryman' article

"Walter put great store on passing the songs on; on several occasions he said ?They?re not my songs, they?re everybodys?. This, to a degree, went against what had happened in the past, especially within his own family, where the singers had jealously guarded their songs, even to the extent of altering words or omitting verses if they thought there was somebody present trying to learn them. He was insistent that it was generally recognised that, at home, some songs ?belonged to? certain singers and that nobody else would sing them in the presence of the ?owner?. However, throughout his life he persisted with his belief in the common ownership of songs:

?I saw a chap at Happisburgh this summertime, he said he knew songs, he said, ?I always refuse to let anyone have them. Once you let someone else have them they aren?t yours?. Well, I say, that is true, but I say, when you die you take all the knowledge of the songs with you, so someone might as well have the benefit after you are dead?.

Jim Carroll