Some songs I guess mean different things to different people. Eric Bogle belives at least one parody of his "The Band Played Waltzing Matilda" is a great song written by a friend of his but he doesn't sing it himself.

"The songs that I write I don't sing them no more
They're tiring old songs from a tiring old bore
And the young people ask what did he write them for
And I ask myself the same question"

"Yes I left a wife & a sweetheart behind
When the she wife she found out she near lost her mind"
When these first came out I was hanging out with a bunch of singers, musicains & dancers at an Irish bar & these songs would get airplay maybe 2 or 3 times a night, night after night, year in year out. The barmen, the waitresses & the regulars started to develop spasms & limps &gaging could be heard through out the place when these songs got started up. It got so bad that at one point the cook was found trying to poison the patrons requesting these songs & she eventually was found swinging from the rafters by the neck, with a note, asking that some one write a song about the cause of her demise. Pretty soon out of respect for the dead & from fear of the living, the musicians would only sing the parodies until finally no one could remembered the original songs & why they had become so popular in the first place. And now in low whispers, from the corners of the bar you can hear the younger ones asking the ancient wise ones "hey man, what's a band that plays Waltzing Matilda"? And a reply is heard "it's a lonely group that's outstanding in Henry's field".
Please, I sometimes can't help myself so can I beg forgiveness & ask if anyone could spare a spud. Barry