"they can call it aurora borealis, they can call it Stenhourmuir, they can call it a velociraptor."
But they don't, any more than they call it 'folk sng' - you're the only one who does that.
"THEY ARE FREE TO DO WHAT THEY LIKE WITH IT!"
Except circulate or sing it publicly - not without paying royalties for doing so - the basic difference between folksong and commercially produced folsongs.
I take it you can give no references to your definition being an established one course you can't - one doesn't exist, therefore you made it up - language and communication doesn't work like that any more than your definition(sic) of folksong doesn't work like that.
Sorry al - debasing both folk song and the English language..
Muskie
You are now deliberately distorting what I said
My first reference to Tom was:
"fraid he did - was there when he sang it as guest at the Singers Club - got up a few people's noses and we didn't book him again."
Clear and plain enough for anybody to read - my second posting (which to took out of context) was a repetition of the first
For ***** sake Muskie, if you haven't got the sense to come in out of the rain on your own behalf - for the sake of the memory of Tom Brown, have the decency to leave him to rest.
I have no time for Keith, Ake or The Skibbereen Stalker, but you are feeding them their ammunition like an Ernie Wise on speed - leave it.
Jim Carroll