Not stealing...

That was amusing. Someone on TV started singing a childhood favorite about bubbles, in Japanese. I started laughing, and joined in with Jesus loves me, this I know... Mitsuko looked at me in amazement and asked how I knew this Japanese song. I said it is an old time American song for children at church. Then she said, "Oh, someone stole it." But... I mean, it is probably public domain, and old as the hills. If you take the melody from an old song and put new words to it, I don't consider that stealing. But what is it?

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