When our daughter was born and I knew we would be overseas most of her school career, I knew that I wanted to include the American folk songs I grew up with. The lists and links that Wendi curated are so much broader and richer than that, and I am thankful for that gift. I've heard my dughter singing "The Wellerman" off and on all day - one of many songs I would never have been aware of if it weren't for AO Folksongs.
But I never heard that it had been anybody’s business to find out what his natural bent was, or where his failings lay, or to adapt any kind of knowledge to him…..I did doubt whether [he] would not have profited by someone studying him a little, instead of his studying them quite so much. (Dickens, Bleak House)