Folk song is like Shakespeare, Dickens, Classical music good art - and wverything else important to our undersatand of the human condition - all needs to be met half-way
The creators whoever they were have done theitr bit by working to gice us something worth having - we should have the decency to return the favour
To treat 'the vocce of the People as you would treat disposable pop music is a betrayal of the People who made it and of what they made it for
Jim