glueman

I had a wheelbarrow is a folk song because it's sung by the folk. It's credentials are impeccable, a mis-hearing of a different tune to different words in another part of the country, sung spontaneously and transforming into a variety of other songs with the same central conceit.

From the point of view of a folklorist, this is clearly folk music, but do the particpants describe it as such?

Don't worry if you don't uderstand what I'm on about, glueman, this isn't aimed at you.