Have you ever thought about folk songs in fantasy worlds?
Preindustrial types sing a LOT. Shanties and hollers pace your work but without the coherent storytelling of ballads or protest songs, they get convoluted. F’rex “Black Betty” popularized by Ram Jam might be about a police wagon, a whip, a musket, a prostitute, all the above. Or “Haul Away Joe” probably existed for decades before adding a lyric about the French Revolution.
Like maybe there’s the clue to some big fantasy world mystery in something your PC just thinks of as “what we sing when we’re working the bellows.”
@Leucrotta There's a part of me that's definitely sad about the degree to which pop music has supplanted folk music in our culture.