I'm so glad Brian Peters has come along as I was getting dangerously close to demonstrating how, if you're not keen on a tune, you can use or adapt another. As he is the master of this I'll leave it to him, pausing only to agree wholeheartedly that the term "traddie is yuk. Nearly as bad as "folkie". They have been coined purely and simply to engender division, an "us & them" which certainly exists but only in benighted pockets among idiots. They're easy to avoid; for instance if at a festival you see a bar with beards, tie-dies and tankards and a notice reading "no instruments", or another with callow youths escaped from their bedrooms with laments about how the world owes them a living, DON'T GO IN.

Otherwise, I'm entirely with Brian Peters' definition of a "traddie" , which here appears to mean anyone who prefers Beer & Knightley when NOT performing typical SoH material. Of the theory that trad music was invented by the bourgeoisie, this is to totally ignore the huge body of work emanating from miners, seafarers, canal, rail and road construction workers and travellers. One can, of course, understand that such realities of life would not have touched someone from the London Borough of Harrow whose conception of the former Merrie England comes from a chocolate box and other assorted heritage shop tat.