Timothy, the younger of my nearly-6-year-old twins, is a definite folkbaby. He has for months now, which is a LONG time in little kid land, claimed he would be a songwriter when he grows up. (William changes what he wants to be daily, but Timothy has really been sticking with this songwriting idea...)

Anyway, he'll make up songs based on all the songs he knows any words to, makes up his own tunes that don't seem based on anything I know or know that he knows, even includes some hunh!'s and Whackfols and suchlike. I'm holding out the hope he won't turn into a rapper... and both have my ability (dysability?) to memorize songs based upon very few hearings. William does what I do, which is sing the songs as heard. Timothy will create his own version almost instantly - like the line from a song about Orion which goes "Bold Orion, mighty hunter, rising in a clear cold sky" which he has rendered as "rising in a blood-warm sky" or "rising in an ice-cold sky" - both of which I really really like... somehow especially the former!