The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #110900 Message #2339874
Posted By: Don Firth
13-May-08 - 09:20 PM
Thread Name: Chords in Folk?
Subject: RE: Chords in Folk?
Well, you see, it works like this: when Cecil Sharp went around getting people to sing their old songs for him so he could write them down, the people he collected from didn't know for sure that he wasn't from the folk police. If he had been, and he'd caught a couple of people singing in harmony, or someone accompanying himself or herself on an old home-made banjo, or a guitar they bought from the Sears-Roebuck catalog, he might have issued them a ticket and they would have had to pay a heavy fine, which they could ill afford.
Don Firth