Here are a few phrases from folksongs as they are currently sung: "answered me with a modesty, I'll be 16 next Sunday;"she said with a smiling countenance, they call me Jack Munro;"ol crump's dead and in her grave;" he fed me on corn dodgers as hard as any rock;"there I spied a handsome lady, but her name I did not know. These phrases and many more like them would not be in our folk songs, if someone hadn't been listening to the words.