I am using this next song as a comparison between the European vs. the Afrocentric take on music. Your location in the world definitely plays a major role in the evolution of a folk song, or any song for that matter. Similar to a game we used to play as children titled Telephone, this folk song might’ve started off as something completely different in its creation from what I now present to you. (On the left, Simon and Garfunkel-1970. On the right, Aretha Franklin-1971). These songs may seem completely different at times being that there may be an obvious addition/subtraction of lyrics and the arrangement of those lyrics’ appearances, but they share the same melody when the sing “Like a bridge over troubled water.”