Omg!!! Its not a D.C.T. post!!!! Omg!

@@LewBearMusic oh interesting 🤔 🥰

@Wobbz9413 there is no copyright on the music, but the Animals version was their own variation on the lyrics. You wouldn't get far into your release without a call from the solicitors if you used their lyrics. Bob Dylan used the trad lyrics, hence my advice

@@Wobbz9413 I'm afraid you're wrong For instance, there are parody versions for different towns and every person who writes one owns the copyright to their own lyrics in their version, as they created them There are many versions in the public domain, but if you wished to, you could write a version and it would be protected too The Animals used some trad lyrics, wrote a verse of their own and fiddled with others, so it's their lyrics Having released a fair few trad numbers, many come a cropper with this, including myself once with over the hills when I used the lyrics from the version used in Sharpe, which, despite being centuries old, uses verse lyrics written by John Tams