Jim: A reminder of what I have related before: when I mentioned, during an interview with Bert Lloyd, Liverpool FC supporters' use of the song in question, & asked if they had thus made it into a folksong, he replied "Folk in function but not in form". You, OTOH, say above that is not what it sounds like that matters [11 Feb 0505 AM], but the use to which it is put [there & in succeeding posts]. So you & he appear to give diametrically opposite, and even mutually contradictory, answers to my question, tho both your answers are in the negative.

So, just perhaps, the truth may lie somewhere in between?

~M~