Dear Dec - #10 - (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding

Dear Dec,
when you're young, you're lost and confused. Nothing seems to make sense - the world just looks unappealing and cold.
But then you discover music, and maybe you decide to learn to play guitar.
And if you're lucky enough to afford to buy one, plus a new set of strings, and stubborn enough to learn a song, and brave enough to sing it, then you could make it yours.
You put your emotions into it, and even if someone else wrote it, that song could become yours.
Of course that's theft, and it's a crime, but when the police comes to arrest you, you can say, "No, you don't understand, I'm a folk singer, and that was a traditional song, it's not copyrighted", and they usually let you go, because very few coppers know about music, or songs, or songwriters, and they're too lazy to check.
Then you could use this episode and write a song about it, and that would really be your song, yours and no one else's, and if you hear someone else singing it, you can call the police on them, and the circle goes on and on.
That's what the traditional song "Will the Circle Be Unbroken?" is about, I reckon.
Cheers, bye,
Matt
"(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding" was written by Nick Lowe and released on Brinsley Schwarz's album "The New Favourites of... Brinsley Schwarz" in 1974.
Elvis Costello covered it a few years later.
Recorded somewhere in the valley in Rome, Italy

[@FingersAndStrums]

nice one.

[@ScruffySinger]

Thank you! Cheers!