Johnny Depp and Jeff Beck’s 'Sad Motherfuckin’ Parade' appears to share numerous lines with 'Hobo Ben,' a toast performed and recorded in the mid-Sixties.
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“They do not reflect the actual authorship of those lyrics,” he says. “It’s just not plausible, in my opinion, that Johnny Depp or anybody else could have sat down and crafted those lyrics without almost wholly taking them from some version of my father’s recording and/or book where they appeared.” But while a side-by-side comparison of “Hobo Ben” and “Sad Motherfuckin’ Parade” may make things look clear-cut, building an actual legal case is a murkier proposition. The biggest question is authorship: “Hobo Ben,” like so much music and art in the oral tradition, does not have a definitive author.
“It’s a perfect storm, basically, for these people who create in this particular manner, and the law is pretty hostile to that form of creation,” Greene says.
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