Are my posts to you getting through ?
My most recent response to your recent response still remains unanswered, so perhaps there is a glitch in the system – ? ?
If so, here is another copy (Cut and pasted) for you (Below).
— NO ! You are RIGHT ON TARGET ! ALL THE WAY DOWN THE LINE .
I'm really starting to get excited about this — and I shouldn't be !
After all, the writer(s) — there are 2 of them – could easily say : "Oh, it's already published ; Let's just let it be incorrect ."
This is a very unique song, that has been drafted from an original idea, and even the original "idea" gives credit to others who were credited before (Particularly for the main hook), and the main writer who finally put the current lyrics to it (Ha Ha ! Notice, Corey, I say "current lyrics" — as if, by some mystery, this could actually still be a WORK IN PROGRESS) even admitted that this is a MOST unusual song that has taken 85 years to "complete" ! (Or, is it really "complete" ?).
and, this particular writer even admitted that he got some of the information wrong that is included in the song.
How settling (Or "unsettling" to put it better) is that ?
In other words, as a writer (And, let's assume that "almost every writer" is a bit of a perfectionist, right ?), do you REALLY want to have a MEGA-HIT being sung 1,000 years from now with admittedly wrong information in it ?
And, Corey — I do mean MEGA-HIT here .!
The "fix" is SO SIMPLE, that I'm surprised it already hasn't been done, or at least hasn't been changed for live performances .
and, I personally think the writers would FLIP to understand how simple, yet how powerful, and how far reaching this change would be (They're not stupid ! ).
I appreciate your instructions for how to proceed — still seems like a considerable uphill battle, though, but I do think the main writer could be contacted through his group's website.
— they simultaneously realize (And they WILL realize this !) that for all future live performances, they could have it sung correctly — for instance, it would only take them, or their publisher, 2 seconds to put the word out for the simple rearrangement of lyrics in order to get the artists currently covering the song on board, and everyone singing it correctly at live performances, instead of incorrectly, in the future.
Is this a possibility also ?
Finally, who do YOU know that is powerful enough in the music business, in the U.S.A., who could help with this ?
I am not adverse at all to working with the right people (Yourself included) to help me bring this about.
This is just simply too good of an idea, with far reaching consequences for the life of the song (I.e., 1000 years from now), to let this go.