Hi,

Sure. The reason why you always see me going after original versions, as far as the virtual tradition will now help me get there, is not that those versions are the law, but because the meaning tends to be clearest there. But once I feel I know what all the bits of the song originally were about, I tend to insert bits from the versions I met along the way, where I feel those improve the song.

Of course, ours is a different shaping of the songs than that of the regional tradition. We're less likely to build on the single version known where we live, and we can check lyrics that in unrecorded music would mondegreen. But we still keep changing the songs, perfecting them. And as such, together we're the 20th or 21st century unknown composer that the 24th century would attribute those songs to, as they are too good to have been written by just one of us ordinary folk.

Bye
                                                                Mysha