"Just responding to Jim's baffling suggestion that only traditional and tradalike lyrics have any value, "
You appear to have joined the liars on this thread Spleen
I have never made any such statement, nor do I believe it.
I said that folk-song and songs based on folk song strles are what I expect to hear when I go to a folk club (no - not exactly true) - I said that is what I once expected to hear when I went to a folk club - those days are, sadly, long gone)
Oddly enough - if I go to a classical concert, I expect to hear classical music.
I always get a buzz of satisfaction when my opponents find it necessary to lie about what I'm saying - an indication that they have no honest answers to respond with.
Feel free to continue.
Really don't get what you are trying to prove with your long and somewhat inarticulate poetry unless you are showing how far it is from folk-song, in which case, you've made your point
Jim Carroll