Melodical resemblance of these 2 songs

Are You Washed in the Blood

This song has a striking melodical resemblance with

She's Coming Around the Mountain

JoJo greets

Indeed, I see what you mean.

Maybe we miss a "has a melodical resemblance with"-feature

Doesn't the concept of "adaptation" include "same melody, different lyrics?" (He says, opening up a can of worms....)

Exactly, let's keep the can closed

B -- I don't understand.

My indirect access to the Guidelines showed this, which seems to have examples of "same tune, new lyrics = adapatation:"

https://secondhandsongs.com/page/Guidelines/Entities/Works/AdaptationRelations

I we agree, this line from the link Jeff gave, pretty well covers it up:

Out of scope: "Inspired by" adaptation relations, works that show similarities with other works, but it's hard to point out whether some parts were actually borrowed or not. We will continue to handle these case as we currently are: using the comment section.

So the least we can do, is use the comment section.

JoJo greets