I've been singing traditional songs for bloody years too. That doesn't make my punk songs folk.

Your silly narrow definitions may be within the genre "folk" but there are many definitions of folk that aren't in your little list. First of all you were both rattling on about the oral tradition and lack of copyright. A few people, not just me, shot that down in flames. Then it was "of the working people." That lasted about five seconds. Now it's folk if the person writing it has been known to sing the odd traditional song.

Pray keep going. In about five years you may have covered about half of folk.

I look on the bright side. Thanks to Michael's latest stab at it, I can introduce 1952 Vincent Black Lightning as a folk song when I perform it and refer tit trousers to Michael if he or she argues otherwise.

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