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Thread #2624   Message #41911
Posted By: Anon (but alive)
15-Oct-98 - 11:21 PM
Thread Name: How to Create a Folksong (FS for Dummies)
Subject: RE: How to Create a Folksong (FS for Dummies)
In 1907, after collecting and studying about 1500 folk songs, Cecil Sharp wrote a book entitled 'English Folksongs: Some Conclusions'. The first conclusion: A folk song is always anonymous.

If you can read that last paragraph, you aren't dead and forgotten, so as far as creating a folk song goes, you can't get there from here.