The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #47962   Message #718459
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
27-May-02 - 08:24 PM
Thread Name: Rewriting someone else's song
Subject: RE: Rewriting someone else's song
Thanks, InOBU and Áine. (On the net no one can see you blush.)

Here's a song I wrote in a previous thread in the what-is-folk traditional cycle of threads. (The thread being What is Folk? IN SONG.)

Just because you made it
doesn't mean you own it.
Once a song has come to life,
it's everybody's song.
Just be glad you did your thing,
and made a song that people sing,
now that song is on the wing,
it's everybody's song.

It's as true for a song
as it is for a child,
there's a time to let go,
when it's time for running wild.
You can't hold it down,
you've done the best you could -
there's a song in the air,
and there's singing in the wood.