Please may we get this straight? Ignoring the post about competition, and I may add, quoting from the content of a conversation I had with Roy Palmer, very few people decry Bert for changing Folk songs. A considerable number of people are irritated by Bert's untruths about his sources and invented traditional singers. It makes the already difficult life of the Folklorist more arduous and interrupts the construction of correct archives and indexes. Greater men than I have been a deal more forthright in their condemnation.