Spaw, you disappoint me. Where's your imagination? All this time, I thought you were the paragon of imagination, and here you let me down. If Leadbelly had to stick completely with the "facts," we wouldn't have a wonderful verse like this one:

Well, Titanic came 'round a curve,
And she run into a great big iceberg,
Farewell, Titanic, fare thee well

Why let the facts get in the way of a good line? I thought you lived by that creed.
-Joe-