I guess, if one hears a song and doesn't know the 'official title', he can be excused for calling it something else(till he learns better)but, there is SO much confusion already in the world...Sometimes people start a thread to ask for songs which are in the database because they don't know or can't spell the title. And sometimes the song is not in the database with the 'correct' title...(as in "I was Born About 10,000 Years Ago", which is there only as 1\2 of "Just the Fact's Ma'm").

But, Eric Bogle's songs are not that old, and widely known, and as we see, it causes no little confusion when folks gratuitously re-name them. And to call something other than the original song "The Flowers of the Forest" is simply careless.(yes, I know even THAT was re-written with more maudlin words way back when....*smile*..but I don't know anyone who sings it..)

I once heard a song Jean Redpath sand called 'Inverey', and askey in here for the words...only to learn that it had been there all along under the usual title,"The Baron of Brackley"..and I had failed to take Dick G's advice to look up text instead of title!!!

So. this is a plea for everyone to make every effort to avoid obvious re-naming--at least of songs with known authors and copyrights...