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Posted By: Don Firth
25-Aug-14 - 08:53 PM
Thread Name: What makes a new song a folk song?
Subject: RE: What makes a new song a folk song?
And "Tom Dooley" ("Tom Dula") was not written by Frank Proffitt. Proffitt learned the song from his Aunt Nancy Prather, whose parents had known both Laura Foster and Tom Dula.
Did one of them write the song? Don't know. Perhaps.