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How do you properly put an entire song (that is not yours) in a story?
I know that if you were to take a quote from a song, you would simply write (in italics)
"your prison is walkin' through this world all alone"
-"Desperado" written by Don Henley and Glenn Frey, 1973
But I want to put the entire song into a story that I am writing. Would I still need to put the quotation marks if I put the entire song and not just a quote from it? Do I need to say who published it along with who wrote it? Do I need the year it was published (like I put)?
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- John WLv 67 years agoFavorite Answer
Yes, you will need quotation marks at the beginning and ending of the song! "Desperado", one of my favorites, by the way, would be credited: Written by Don Henley and Glenn Frey/Performed by The Eagles.
