Banjo Paterson

[billy]

i think like artists or some artists, they get discovered either before or after death. in the old days they got fame through patronage. a bit like the old masters. now days it's often the art critics who make a painter famous. i think it's the same with poetry. the critics and publishers predominantly choose who will be famous of not. like most things someone sets up a supply and demand scenario. jmo

back to banjo and co some of the sung words are remembered because they're easy to remember, they stick in the mind, everyone knows a mulga bill, banbang the man with the keys who shoots the buses in dublin. they're about us the people.