The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #127007 Message #3633100
Posted By: GUEST,Musket
15-Jun-14 - 03:23 AM
Thread Name: Songs within songs
Subject: RE: Songs within songs
A clever variation is purposely borrowing lines.
Paul Simon's "Leaves that are green" had the opening line lifted by Billy Bragg in "New England"
I was twenty one years when I wrote this song
I'm twenty two now but I won't be for long.
This however is different to songs evolving slightly differently in the oral tradition such as Matty Groves and Little Musgrave.