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Thread #129632 Message #3095238
Posted By: GUEST,Seonaid
14-Feb-11 - 03:27 PM
Thread Name: Nominations for 'new' traditional songs
Subject: RE: Nominations for 'new' traditional songs
Back to nominations:
How about "She Moved Through the Fair" and "Amazing Grace"?
The one pops up primarily amongst traddies, but the other is all over the place, especially at funerals. (No-one remembers it was written by a reformed slave merchant.)
As to the ongoing what-is-a-trad-song discussion, I'll always go back to the Prairie Home Companion definition of a folk song: it's a song you learned from somebody else and remember the words to, mostly.
Cheers!