In Sir Patrick Spens I clean forgot
The forty-second verse
So I sang the twenty-seventh, twice as loud
and in reverse
and no-one noticed"

Fred Wedlock, The Folker.

On a more serious note can I ask where would Jaques Brel fit in? Some of his songs equal afore mentioned ballads in epic proportions and a lot do tell a story. Neither are they pop or any other apparent genre. What about some of Stan Rogers - Barrats Privateers to mention but one. Or Gordon Lightfoots "Edmund Fitzgerald" All ballads surely?

Only asking out of curiousity!

Cheers

Dave