folk song
noun
: a traditional or composed song typically characterized by stanzaic form, refrain, and simplicity of melody
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There’s something about the honest expression of a folk song that speaks more to someone who is asking those questions.
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Alan Light, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2025
Demonstrators in Sonoma County wine country sang along to Woody Guthrie folk songs.
—Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2025
There’s something about the honest expression of a folk song that speaks more to someone who is asking those questions.
—Alan Light, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2025
There are references to a 16th-century Venetian playwright, an old American folk song, and Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales.
—Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 4 Mar. 2025
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Alan Light, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2025
Demonstrators in Sonoma County wine country sang along to Woody Guthrie folk songs.
—Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2025
There’s something about the honest expression of a folk song that speaks more to someone who is asking those questions.
—Alan Light, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2025
There are references to a 16th-century Venetian playwright, an old American folk song, and Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales.
—Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 4 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for folk song
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“Folk song.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/folk%20song. Accessed 5 May. 2025.
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