#folk songs

People thought me a bit strange at first; a blond haired, blue-eyed Norwegian who sang Mexican folk songs, but I used it to my advantage and got a job. And so the music became my ticket to education. ↗

— David Soul

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I guess all songs is folk songs. I never heard no horse sing 'em. ↗

— Big Bill Broonzy

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There are no bridges in folk songs because the peasants died building them. ↗

— Eugene Chadbourne

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But in my imagination this whole thing developed and I started mixing up old folk songs with the Beatles beat and taking them down to Greenwich Village and playing them for the people there. ↗

— Roger McGuinn

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What I'm doing is basically the same as Bob Dylan did with folk songs and Woody Guthrie songs, the same as folk music's always done. I'm not going to sing about ploughing, but I'll write a song that sounds like it should be about ploughing. ↗

— Justin Townes Earle

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