The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #119490   Message #2631765
Posted By: Jim Carroll
14-May-09 - 12:15 PM
Thread Name: What makes it a Folk Song?
Subject: RE: What makes it a Folk Song?
Sop:
You said:
"The revival is heavy with contradiction, men with degrees and clean finger nails sing the painful plough,"
You then said:
"once sung by the Hearty Ploughman by the fireside after a hard day tramping the furrows"
Content our source - which or both? - I would love to find some point of agreement with you.
Jim Carroll