Which is okay if you are intelligent and creative enough to tailor your folksong for the audience.

I can remember so many times when I screwed up with audiences. Its like Hemingway says, if you go to war often enough - you'll get killed.

When I was acountry singer - Its hard to love a man whose legs are bentan paralysed. And this bloke walks/stumbles in and across the floor with the bentest pair of legs you ever saw.

I remember , an agent sent me out with this music hall act - and theres this line in knees up mother brown! that goes, and if I catch you bending, I'll saw your legs right off!
Luckily I DID have the presence of mind to change it in a roomful of amputees - but i can think of some singers who are o'on automatic' and wouldn't.

its so easy to get the audience wrong - years ago, like in my twenties - i got asked to do this gig for the OAP's Christmas party. One discerning old chap, observed very loudly in my Jim Reeves medley - this bugger will have us dib dib dobbing next!

its as well someone publishes versions that won't anyone except folk song enthusiasts.