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Thread #155357   Message #3668613
Posted By: Musket
13-Oct-14 - 09:34 AM
Thread Name: What makes a new song a folk song?
Subject: RE: What makes a new song a folk song?
Ah.. That'll be the one for whom the 1954 definition was irrelevant to begin with.

It is a folk song though. Apparently one of The Spinners wrote it and they are folk. My Mum used to listen to them on the telly, singing folk songs.

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The Ballad of Sharpeville is a good example of a folk song. I wouldn't call it a non song though. Keep posting lyrics of folk songs and you are doing a service. Keep saying they aren't folk songs and let others laugh at your stupidity..

Not a folk song... Ehh.. Tha' does talk bollocks, I'll grant you that.