Just my two cents.... Over the last 30+ years I've been involved with campfire music, and you can see songs move closer to "folk" . Generations of camp staff change every 5 years at most, so the process gets speeded up quite a bit. I would vote that any multiverse song kids are still teaching each other after 25 years is probably on it's way to becoming a folk song. That doesn't mean I like them or would choose to teach them myself, but somehow they speak to the teens and twenties in a way that continues to keep them alive.

Jet Plane, One Tin Soldier and Try and Catch the Wind still go on..... This summer I heard a call and response jazzed up version of If I Had a Hammer that had the campfire rocking...

Recordings may preserve the original intent of the composer, but from my own experience the version of Power and Glory I learnt at GS Camp in 1968 had little resemblace to the Phil Ochs recording I heard 30 years later. (And I taught it to a lot of kids in between.) It'll happen despite our efforts not because of...

Tinker