"If 'Little Boxes' and 'The Red Flag' are folk songs. we need a new term to describe 'The Outlandish Knight'. Searching for Lambs' and 'The Coal-owner and the Pitman's Wife'.
Jim Caarroll,

Not if they are sung by football fans at their matches, and are altered by the singers at the time this makes them folk songs according to the 1954 definition.