"Some of us aren't arrogant enough to have positions Jim"
If you haven't got a "position" on folk song you should leave those of us who believe we have, get on on with it - you certainly shouldn't be attempting to bully people into position on what you appear to be admitting, you didn't have a position on, and you shouldn't be designating pop songs 'folk' if you don't have a position on what constitutes a folk song - not arroagnce, just familiarity with the subject, which you have amply displayed you're not.
"if you don't like the whelks don't muck 'em abaht" as the (I'm sure you'll insist) 'folk' song says.
I don't think I've ever encountered such thuggishly bullying and dishonest behaviour on a discussion forum before - even on a "what is folk song" thread - folk policing or what!
Now I'll leave you to your sniping and sniding - off to hear some Child Ballads in Limerick (yawwwn no doubt!)
Have a good day now, d'you hear!
Jim Carroll