Walter dismissed music hall songs - it was difficult to get him to sing them
He went to great lengths to specify the differences between them and what he described 'the old folk songs'
His family songs came with pictures, characters and locations
However - water didn't make the songs he sang - he acquired them, first because he thought them uniquely important and later to sing them
I thought we were talking about the making of the songs - walter played no part in that - the inside knowledge came with the making, not the singing
We have Walter's opinions of tape - we recorded hem for twenty years
Jim Carroll