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Thread #2624   Message #101115
Posted By: Shimbo
31-Jul-99 - 10:15 AM
Thread Name: How to Create a Folksong (FS for Dummies)
Subject: RE: How to Create a Folksong (FS for Dummies)
Sorry, folks, I'm learning on the run. Now I have worked out that I need to use html, I'll try my "quickie" again. Should be a little easier to follow this time.

Say Alan man and did you plan that song that you just writ
A bit more work, a chorus too, and you'll have quite a hit
CDs, tapes, and vinyl discs will fill your purse with loot
But what about a johnny cake and coolibahs to boot.
The Lachlan River you have missed, and lambing down as well,
Addition of Ned Kelly, and swaggies would be swell.
A ryebuck shearer, dead police, smoking bushrangers' guns
Maggie May and Gundagai, it gives a man the ... (time for me to leave)