yes, Jim fair comment and you are a good perfoRmer..
It is the start of your song's entry into the folk process." quote Al, debatable but just your opinion, not fact, some modern songs do get mistaken for trad but certainly not every song that is written, then there is the problem with copyrighted songs,thAt they do not evolve and become folk processed ,lyric wise, the lyrics are set in stone and the composer has every right to object to changes, Anne Lister recently mentioned this as regards Icarus. IF A SONG WRITER WRITES A SONG HE/SHE INTENDS IT TO HAVE A CERTAIN MEANING.