Oh, how could I have forgotten - There's that song by Alistair Hullett. It sounds wonderfull sung by June tabor, but when he himself sang "Theres a man in my bed..." I couldn't help but laugh at the age of eleven, till I found out the English folk tradition does that all the time.

Men singing "My love he is a handsome man, and proper tall and slim..." or Women singing "I love my love as well she knows.." or "...my true love passed me by, I knew her mind had altered by the roaving of her eye.....and married we never shall be." (you're not kidding...)

It's just that we PRESUME they're singing songs meant for the opposite sex. To the naive, folk music possibly has the largest body of recorded homosexuality of any genre ever.