@But origin and source are among a variety of possible criteria by which one might try to decide which songs are "folk" and which are something else.]
not according to the 1954 dfinition, according to that definition, football chants are folk, the origin.. often popular music ill never walk alone] the source the people who attend football matches. im sorry but i am not going to accept that such dross as the wheelbarrow song[notts county] is acceptable as a folk song i am certainly not going to pay to hear it sung in a folk club