THat was lovely description Jim of how the folk revival started. But ....when the genie out of the bottle. we lose control.

I bet Ewan would have understood. After all...what people did to his songs was nobody's business.

My one successful commercially successful song was buggered up by the record company and the publisher. The Bayern Munich fans turned it into a chant on the terraces!

We lose control, once these things are in the public domain. That goes for ideas. Its like Einstein and Hiroshima. We just don't know where creativity will lead.

By the standards of Einstein, the folk revival has been a howling success.