Nobody 'owns' the word Tom,not me, not you, not the handful of club organisers that would wish it away.
A definition exists, it is established, extremely well documented (probably more so than any other musical genre) and accessible to all who would wish to seek it out.
Thirty odd years of fairly intensive field research has proved to me, beyond any doubt that it works when put to the test. The results of that work are freely accessible to anybody who suspect I might be telling porkies.
Democracy does not lie in the hands of those with vested interests who would mould it to their own purposes.
Definitions don't get voted out of existence, they evolve, out of changing circumstances, out of constant misuse, by additional information - but certainly not at the behest of a handful.
If any of your provided definitions hold water as such, point to me the dictionaries were I can find them listed, because when push comes to shove, it is there that we go for the consensus that enables us to continue communicating with each other over great distances and periods of time.
Jim Carroll
PS If your songs are folk songs they are copyright by law as I understand it - if they are not why?
Nor did you answer my Lady ith the cello question