Jerry Friedman- "It's ironic to see Coralena object to rewriting folk songs--where do they come from, after all? But I know that's not what she meant."

Jerry, what do YOU mean by "where do they come from, after all"?

If you were implying that folks do turn and twist and sometimes add their own touch to a song, well, I am aware of that and I plead gulity to that assault on a number of songs. What I object to is rewriting songs and or history. A college professor at the university that my nephew attended told the class that President Nixon attempted a military take over of the goverment and not one student in that class doubted him. Check out a history book or any of the books that are being used to teach the children of this country, you will be shocked. Have you read "1984"? Also, though I am gulity as stated before(singing only for my own amusement),it does bother me when someones' work is tampered with. What a person writes, a song or be it a poem, is a child of that person, born of their laboring of their soul and we should not hack at that and try to change it but apperciate it for what it is and create our own "work" to express ourselves.