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Thread #123745   Message #2727940
Posted By: GUEST,matt milton
21-Sep-09 - 08:25 AM
Thread Name: Singing with Archetypes
Subject: RE: Singing with Archetypes
how about The Cuckoo (the US version that is: ie "...she never hollers coocoo till the 4th day of July"). or Shady Grove. or Buckeye Jim.

I'm thinking of those American old-time folksongs that are like cut-n-paste collages of remembered verses of other songs. With verses that don't really belong. Greil Marcus analyses them well in his 'Invisible Republic' book.