The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #131351 Message #2964187
Posted By: Jack Blandiver
13-Aug-10 - 05:13 AM
Thread Name: Is it permissible-to change a word in an old song?
Subject: RE: Is it permissible-to change a word in an old song?
Must ballads be governed by this sort of pedantic logic I wonder? Such corrections do run contratry to the spirit of the thing rather - the genuine products of more random elements of The Folk Process all of which add to their - er - folk character.