Subject: RE: What makes a new song a folk song?
From: Phil Edwards - PM
Date: 02 Oct 14 - 05:43 PM

GSS - no indeed, but by being rocked up (or wombled up) & spliced with Farewell He, it did become a bloody poor source to learn the words or tune of "All around my hat".
no, it is aperfectly good source for a tune, but not for the words,but only because it was spliced with another song, however that does not mean that all folk songs that become popular are not good sources for words or tune, for example worried man blues [vipers], or on top of old smokey[hank williams]are still perfectly good sources for the song.