The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #42158   Message #610988
Posted By: Suffet
16-Dec-01 - 11:37 AM
Thread Name: Can newly composed song become folk song
Subject: RE: Can newly composed song become folk song
She is mistaken. Newly composed songs are the raw material from which all folk songs arise. How many little children who learn "A Place in the Choir" in Sunday school will have any idea that Bill Staines wrote it? Not many. But I am certain they will pass that song down to their children and grandchildren.

--- Steve