Jerry like you I think songs are for the singing a and singer finds their own "voice", the two things I am not happy with are people who sing irish, scottish, american and english songs mimicking the accent of that country switching from one accent to the other, I think it is sad because they haven't yet found themselves, the other is someone who changes it for the sake of being different. We change songs because it is what we see and feel in a song not because we want to be different. sometimes we sing, what to all appearances, seem like a rip off of someone elses arrangement but on at least two songs we had never seen performed the way we had done them before, a case of like minds. Sticks in my craw when we get criticised for not being "true" to the writer, like it's an insult to them. It's just we can see different meanings in songs by the odd tweak and just maybe discover the subliminal message in the song, more like a puzzle that the writer has set!