Looks like Humpty Dumpty had a point...

If Bogle writes a song about an event it is folk. When Geldof writes a song it isn't. Even though both are sung by a bloke with a guitar in the upstairs room of a pub with wine glass candles on the tables next to the beer, an audience of people with beards, even the men, and one old lad in the corner wearing tit trousers muttering to himself about that nice man with a tape recorder who used to take him seriously.

I get it now. If you say it's a folk song eh? But if I say it is???

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