Internet cut and paste proliferation phenomenon

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I'm listening to Lead Belly this afternoon. I've found some songs I hadn't heard before and some that I had forgotten about or never knew the words to. I decided I wanted to examine the lyrics to "Whoa Back Buck." I had to search more than ten sites before I found the lyrics to the recording I was listening to. All the other sites had some combination of the same other set of lyrics, which I suspect are not from a different Lead Belly recording though they were labeled "Lead Belly." I suspect they are from someplace else entirely because they scan differently. And not because some of the verses (which were sometimes cut ou and sometimes presented as the only lyrics, go figure) are heavily scatalogical and the one I've been listening to isn't--it's not unusual for the recording sessions to have dirtier lyrics than the performance recordings. But they don't scan the same, so I think they're from a more different source than that. I don't know how they originally got to be associated with Lead Belly aside from the fact that he recorded the song at least once, but I do know how these other sites presented them that way: because on the internet, some people don't feel that it is necessary to compare their sources.

The hilarious moments are the sites that include Lead Belly's recording and also the clearly different lyrics right on the same page. Do they ever listen to the files they embed, or read the lines they paste in their sites?

using the "underrepresented mujsic" tag for reasons though I do not believe Lead Belly counts as truly underrepresented.

edit: Forgot to mention that the site that had the words I was looking for was French.