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Thread #42158   Message #611273
Posted By: Rick Fielding
16-Dec-01 - 08:00 PM
Thread Name: Can newly composed song become folk song
Subject: RE: Can newly composed song become folk song
Harvey, the next time you visit, I wanna hear some PARATROOPER stories!

Sometimes it depends on HOW these 'composed' folkie songs are sung. My song "Voices of Struggle" became a standard on picket lines throughout Ontario a few years ago (no doubt because of the election of an ultra conservative Govt.) I was surprised to find it also being used (with French translation) as part of the Separatiste protests in Quebec. I asked someone what they thought it's origins were, and was told "probably a Robert Charlebois 'folksong' from the sixties".

It only means that songs like that "worked".

Rick