Artbrooks, yes, sort of. "Well-known facts that aren't because I just invented them." Repeating things you heard is fine, as long as you claim you, a close personal friend or someone they knew wrote them.

I was being sarcastic with the 'somebody should tell them' thing, since the plague story been posted quite a few times already in the 'Origins' thread.

I thought it might be fun to write some 'tall tales' about the origins of songs and rhymes. I thought of a better one than what I wrote above a couple of days ago, but I don't want to put stuff like that in a serious music thread.

We may still have some people around Mudcat who enjoy writing and/or being silly. I wouldn't be too surprised to find we either don't or that this idea simply doesn't blow anybody's skirt up.