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Thread #36871   Message #512379
Posted By: catspaw49
22-Jul-01 - 01:02 PM
Thread Name: BS: How To Create a Folk Song (II)
Subject: RE: BS: How To Create a Folk Song (II)
Tunes for folk songs can be stolen from any appropriate source. These include:

A) Any tune used for any Child's song.
B) Anything previously thought to be a folk song.
C) All tunes stolen by Woody regardless of how many times he used them.

Tunes NOT appropriate include:

A) Any self-written and contrived sounding ditties lacking anything resembling a melody.
B) Sousa Marches, even as parodies.
C) "Stairway to Heaven"
D) Anything ever done by "Big Brother and the Holding Company."

Spaw