The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #119547   Message #2596963
Posted By: Jack Blandiver
25-Mar-09 - 10:33 AM
Thread Name: 1954 and All That - defining folk music
Subject: RE: 1954 and All That - defining folk music
Child #10 (which Child #10?) should never be sung to the tune of Child #1 (which Child #1?).

I mean, of course, those who sing The Cruel Sister to the Lay the Bent to the Bonny Broom melody & chorus, thus making a nonsense out the bawdy eroticism thereof, however so plaintive the melody. Is sloppy sourcing part of the Folk Process too I wonder? It might just well be after all!