Sandman: ...you do not change lyrics of pop songs when you sing them, neither does anybody else that i have heard, that is an essential difference between pop songs and folk songs.

Oy. If you can't tell Jamaican Monty Alexander from Jamaican Byron Lee, it's because you've never taken the time to listen to them. One is a jazz pianist. No sing.

I own over twelve hundred (1200) covers of Yellow Bird on vinyl. 37 countries. It's been done in Dutch, French, Mandarin and over half are instrumentals the academics are none-the-less likely to list as 'English' cutural appropriations of the Kreyole 'original.'

How in thee holy heckens does one play guitar, piano or vibes in English?