Most songs are folk songs, if you ignore the ludicrous 1954 waffle.

Many years ago, Dave Burland made the point by singing the Boomtown Rats song, "I don't like Mondays."

It hits the point on so many levels.

In the meantime, I listen to Seth Lakeman and note that iTunes calls it folk. Yet a band in a local pub the other night played his "Garden of grace" and introduced it, perhaps quite rightly, as a pop song.

Genres can be contentious, and to quote a friend of mine on a thread a few months ago, Willie said that if it is sung in a folk club, its a folk song. QED.

Mind you, to get back to Joe offer's original plea, I would say that I have a recording of Rod Stewart singing "Dirty Old Town." You could add his "Maggie May" but only shares a title.