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Thread #170957 Message #4136179
Posted By: The Sandman
11-Feb-22 - 05:09 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Cyril Tawney's 'Lady Franklin's Lament'
Subject: RE: Origins: Cyril Tawney's 'Lady Franklin's Lament'
1 the important thing is to sing the song,
2 as regards copyright, legally it is known as trad.
3. what is a natural evolution? rather than any other kind of evolution, any evolution has a degree of consciousness about it.
4. someone once showed me a final verse they had written about the lead poisoining, a conscious evolution.
I would make my own decision on whether to sing that modern verse, on the strength of the verse not whether it was modern or not