The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #93802   Message #2467911
Posted By: GUEST
16-Oct-08 - 10:43 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Cap'n Collins and the Mermaid (Annie Lore
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Capt. Collins and the Mermaid(Annie Lore)
>Of course, by correcting to the original copyrighted version I
>interfere with the Folk Process, which thrives on the garbling that
>is the inevitable accompaniment to oral transmission

Actually, it's the inevitable garbling that occurs with an ancient tape cassette, a veteran of the Coke/Pepsi cola wars that's lived under a car seat during more road trips than a Jack Kerouac literary compendium, eventually buried in a shoe box at the bottom of a neglected storage cellar, and then miraculously risen again from the dead. Only wines and scotch get better with this kind of age.