Boy, you could really open a can of worms with this thread. As a writer, I list a song as Traditional if after research I can find no known author/composer. How accurate is that? Don't know. It works. How old is Traditional music. Yesterday. Allow me to explain. The song "Dixie's Land' is well over fifty years old but Daniel Emmett wrote it so He gets the credit in my Civil War song book. "The MAcNamara Line" from the Vietnam war has no known author that I have found so although it is probably still withing copyright range, I consider it traditional. By the way, if anyone has the full lyrics to the song I would appreciate it if they would post them or pm them to me. I know the first verse goes "The MacNamara line is a hundred miles long/ It's completely surrounded by Viet-Cong/ I'm moving on.." It is song to the tune of the old Dave Dudley song "Moving On"> Thanks and Kindest regards, neil