Another problem with folk song parodies is that I wonder what kids are parodying today? "On Top of Spaghetti," even if it DID have an author at one point, had many iterations arise from children and/or their singing parents. What are they parodying today? Songs from TV, from video games, from their cell phone ring tones? They're still thinking and they're still poking fun at things. But the context has shifted wildly from when we were kids and were actually still singing folk songs.

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