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Fable is a literary genre. A fable is a succinct fictional story, in prose or verse, that features animals, mythical creatures, plants, inanimate objects or forces of nature which are anthropomorphized (given human qualities such as verbal communication), and that illustrates or leads to an interpretation of a moral lesson (a "moral"), which may at the end be added explicitly in a pithy maxim.
A fable differs from a parable in that the latter excludes animals, plants, inanimate objects, and forces of nature as actors that assume speech and other powers of humankind.
Usage has not always been so clearly distinguished. In the King James Version of the New Testament, "μύθος" ("mythos") was rendered by the translators as "fable" in First and Second Timothy, in Titus and in First Peter.
The fable is one of the most enduring forms of folk literature, spread abroad, modern researchers agree, less by literary anthologies than by oral transmission. Fables can be found in the literature of almost every country.
DANCIN' 'ROUND THE KITCHEN
D. Fitzpatrick (SOCAN)
My Pop was a hard workin' man from Spaniards Bay
He never had much time to stop
He'd work 'til late in the evening from the break of dawn
For enough to get him by was all he got
Grandma's gentle hand touched so many hearts in town
Everyone around called her Nan
She knew just how to pick you up when you were feelin' down
Always there to help a stranger or a friend
CHORUS:
I remember watching my Pop and my Nan
Waltzing to 'The Black Velvet Band'
Smiles on their faces, they embraced one another
Dancin' round the kitchen, hand in hand
Up in the garden when I should have been in school
Workin' the ground with my Pop
He said "there's work to be done son, you must lend a hand
You know we're all depending on the crop"
CHORUS
Nan... she'd always greet you with a kiss and a smile
They worked real hard then took time out for awhile