Hi PoppaGator,

Just for the record, Bert Jansch (and a few others) recorded "Angie" - but the original tune was composed by Davey Graham. Mind you, Davey built it on a descending bass line that's commonplace in Flamenco, and widely used in Blues and Jazz ... some version of it might even be lurking in one of the lesser-known works of J S Bach for all I know ...

For me, this ongoing confusion sums up the whole process. Rudyard Kipling once wrote something along the same lines-

"When 'Omer smote 'is bloomin' lyre
He'd heard men sing on land and sea,
An' what he thought 'e might require
'E went and took--the same as me!

The market-girls and fishermen
The shepherds and' the sailors too
They 'eard old songs turn up again
But kep' it quiet--same as you!

They knew 'e stole; 'e knew they knowed
They didn't tell, nor make a fuss
But winked at 'Omer down the road
An' 'e winked back--the same as us."

Wassail!