The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #121393   Message #2649763
Posted By: DMcG
06-Jun-09 - 05:55 AM
Thread Name: Typing song title & punctuation-national customs
Subject: RE: Typing song title & punctuation-national customs
While working on folkinfo I discovered a convention on quotation marks within lyrics that was new to me. If a verse ends with one person speaking who is still speaking in the next verse, then there is an opening quotation in the first verse, no closing quotation mark on the first verse, and another opening quotation mark on the next verse. If, however, there is a change of speaker between verse, the first verse has a closing quotation mark.