"Playing Shakespeare in theatres does not preclude Alan Bennett plays from being staged.
"But claiming something to be folk song when it isn't does enormous damage to the real thing
How many folk cubs did you say there were 186 wasn't it

Damn - bang goes my resolution not to respond to you until you started providing answers of your own   

Nop PFK - my argument is not spurious
You were the one who describe d 54 as 'setting in aspic' - personally, I never do - I ahven't read through it since Bert Lloyd put it in his Folk Song in England in 1967
Whatever my argument is, it's an honestly giiven one, not a 'makkie-up' (good Travellers folk word)
Jim