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@clacke Pete, and even more his sister Peggy, Seeger were huge figures in folk and traditional song across the English speaking world. She was a first-rate song collector, and spent much of her life in England.

Your broader point of course stands, but there's an interesting conversation amongst all the English folk traditions, plenty of songs move back and forth across oceans and seas, giving Anglophone folk an oddly cosmopolitan bent