To answer several of the questions in the last few posts - all of which sort of asked "why not just let all the songs people have fun with be folk songs and quit arguing"

When Digitrad was first put on line, there were already lyrics sites online.Why didn't we just contact them and append our list? Whe do various groups create newsgroups and Web site for their favorite kind of music? Because some kinds of music are DIFFERENT!!! They have different names, different kinds of sounds, different themes, etc.!I saw someone post an arguement in rec.music.folk on this same theme, to the effect "why don't we just have one big site labeled 'MUSIC'"?

This site, as far as I am able to determine, was CREATED in order to make FOLK music available.So, why, just because no one else seems to have come up with an 'interactive' format for their music, does this one have to answer all the questions? If ALL lyric questions are equally welcome here, what does the name mean? I waste a LOT of time opening queries and scrolling down lists of queries filled with stuff which are really pop, or rock, or C&W questions---and NO amount of "well, they are all done by 'folk'" platitudes will change this! Different catagories of music DO exist! I know the exact borders are hard to draw, and I am tolerant of 'borderline' stuff. But I shake my head in dismay when requests are made here which are CLEARLY rock, or pop oriented. I have seen a couple of our experts, who probably KNOW the answer, send the person to another site....I wish everyone would politely do that.Just a "sorry, we don't deal with that here-try this site" would be enough. Dick G. said awhile back that there are difficulties with having lists of links on this site, but several great starting points HAVE been posted from time to time. If you keep feeding these stray kitties, they will just come back here. If you try to be all things to all people, you will soon get more than you can handle. A word to the wise....