Backwoodsman, if you sing these songs you possibly learnt them from CD's or from Youtube thus not conforming to the 1954 definition of songs which states that:

"Folk music is the product of a musical tradition that has been evolved through the process of oral transmission. The factors that shape the tradition are: (i) continuity which links the present with the past; (ii) variation which springs from the creative impulse of the individual or the group; and (iii) selection by the community, which determines the form or forms in which the music survives"

This is where my problem lies because the definition pre-dates the advent of mass television and the computer era which has allowed a far greater access to material.