WORDSANDMUSICWhy do songs have words?Simon FrithIn1918the chairman of Chappell & Co., Britain's largest musicpublishing company, wrote a letter to the novelist Radclyffe Hall.She had complained of receiving no royalties after a song for whichshe had been the lyricist, 'The Blind Ploughman', 'swept thecountry.' William Davey replied,