11 Aug
2022
11 Aug
'22
3:30 a.m.
On Wed, Aug 10, 2022 at 5:13 PM Bill Cheswick <ches(a)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".