On Wed, Aug 10, 2022 at 5:13 PM Bill Cheswick <ches@cheswick.com> wrote:

“The trouble with folk songs is thst they are written by the people.” -Tom Lehrer.

Lehrer's songs, especially "The Periodic Table", have now become subject to the folk process themselves.  "Goldilocks and the Three Bears" was originally written by the Romantic poet Robert Southey, although in his version the bears' antagonist was a "wicked old woman".