""If it can be copyrighted it isn't folk."
You'll have to remind me where I actually said this - it doesn't seem to be here on this thread.
Even if it is something I said, it certainly isn't "the best" I have come up with
You have had masses of statements by me regarding origins, being remade, claimed... by a specific group of people, what traditional singers have had to say in comparing their songs to other forms.... absolute masses - you have chosen to ignore every single statement and have, in turn insulted the people who made and passed on the songs and anybody who disagrees with you - you continue to do so
If that's the best you can come up with......
How about backing up your dogmatic and unqualified statements with facts for a change - you might start by showing how 'I don't Like Mondays' could possibly be a folk song - in origin or in form, alongside some names of people who claim it as such (alongside their evidence, of course)
Jim Carroll