The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #155357   Message #3660193
Posted By: Musket
14-Sep-14 - 02:24 PM
Thread Name: What makes a new song a folk song?
Subject: RE: What makes a new song a folk song?
I am reminded of Fred Wedlock's parody of The Boxer.

In Sir Patrick Spens I clean forgot the forty second verse,
So I sang the eighty second, twice as fast and in reverse,
And no one noticed.
I laughed for hours,
Till the tears ran down my trouser leg
And I thought I'd er.. Eeurgh!