I have to smile every time this thread comes to the top. When I see the words on the screen (or page) I hear them sung in my head. It is impossible to read them in a spoken voice because of having sung it often and of the conversations with my folksinger father (John Dwyer). Part my early liberal education was when Dad was learning new songs and he would explain about how the same tune could be used and how similar words could be used. "Parody" and "ditty" were part of my youthful vocabulary.

SRS