After reading your posting on Dylan's "lying for personal gain", Sandy, I thought I'd take a quick look through some of my vinyl (them's records, youngsters) and hoo-boy! An AWFUL lot of folkies have been doing exactly the same kind of lying! And since the only ones I bothered checking on are folks with "legit" reputations, I've come to the conclusion that Dylan fits right into the tradition. What I doubt I'll be able to find however, is the admition in print that Dylan gave in an early 60s "Sing Out". Roughly quoted he declared to Irwin Silber, "...the tunes have already been out there for a long while...I just pull 'em in..." or something along those lines. My point is, that the record companies and/or publishers did the "claiming". Oh, and the only other folkie to have said in print that he definitely used existing tunes (that I've heard of) was Woody Guthrie. The one song book that I just looked at with Guthrie stuff, said "words and music, Woody Guthrie".