The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #162941 Message #3882496
Posted By: GUEST
16-Oct-17 - 04:22 AM
Thread Name: just as the tide' last verse
Subject: RE: just as the tide' last verse
Because life was hard and uncertain, sometimes people made up, adapted and sang songs embodying wish fulfillment and/or a bit of bawdy for enjoyment.
Traditional songs are fiction, but fictions in which you can shape reality in any way you want. Studies of individual singers' texts, demonstrate comprehensively demonstrate this.