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The Best Folk Songs Come From Folks Like You
People call us all the time with folk songs they've been singing for their entire lives-their mothers sang them, they sang them in their schoolyards, they sing their kids to sleep with them.
We'll call you if we need you to sing the melody for us (and yes, we will make you sing, or at least hum), and we'll try our hardest to use it on the show.
Here are some songs that other folks have submitted:
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Every so often new songwriters get out a pad of paper and a pencil and they sit down to write a great new song. And we hate to break it to these people, but here it is: The greatest songs were written long ago, so long ago that nobody can remember who wrote them. They're called folk songs, and we love singing them on our show.
Listen!
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