Helen Allan

Quoting poems seems to be easy for authors. We find out who has the copyright, we write and ask if we can use it, we get permission, we credit the author, publication, and the copyright permission holder, off we go.

But a song lyric, hell no, that is a completely different barrel of fish – or crayfish in this case.

So I wanted to quote the chorus of a song by Doris Day in the beginning of my third i