The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #155997 Message #3675419
Posted By: Musket
07-Nov-14 - 09:17 AM
Thread Name: No man's land protest
Subject: RE: No man's land protest
Oh, they are an odd minority PFR...
As it is on this thread, some are calling it a folk song. If it cropped up on another thread, the same people would claim it can't be a folk song because it falls foul of some absurd committee that sent out agendas and read out apologies in 1954, allegedley...
Twisting songs? I remember Bruce Springsteen fans getting pissed off when Reagan borrowed "Born in The USA" at Republican conventions, and Joe South's questioning anthem "Games people play" being used to advertise a celebrity magazine, and that's before butter manufacturers saw the value of "The Wild Rover" and Johnny Rotten.... Not to mention Liverpool Airport borrowing "Above us only Sky." (I liked that, on account of the God botherers stood outside arrivals with placards looking stupid.)
Some of the comments on this thread are rather strange and seem to deflect from the idea of altering a song to destroy what it was written for in the first place. It seems to be degenerating into a "it's our song not yours!" Playground politics....