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Thread #165839   Message #3984205
Posted By: PHJim
23-Mar-19 - 06:16 PM
Thread Name: Misheard folk song lyrics
Subject: RE: Misheard folk song lyrics
Then there's the late Oscar Brown Jr. song "Snake", inspired by Aesop's fable of The Farmer and the Viper.
Donald Trump did a horrible version, not word for word, but with what he probably considered improvements to Oscar's lyrics, crediting it to someone named Al Wilson. He recited the song lyrics, often interspersed with adlibs and interjections.
The owners of Oscar's estate, his daughters, requested him to stop using their father's lyrics, yet in an interview on CBC Radio, they said that he had not responded nor had he paid any royalties for the many timed he had used the lyrics on TV or at rallies.