have been helping a few people in my neighbourhood to learn instruments and learn trad tunes and songs[ on a n unpaid basis] and have been cheered up by the fact that there are people that are interested.
THE 1954 DEFINITION IS FLAWED, to include football chants and such that no one in their right mind would want to listen to outside of the context of a foofball match. example the song sung by Notts county foolball fans[ i understand there might be more than one] to the tune of old smokey.For those who haven’t heard it, to the tune of ‘Old Smoky’, it is simply;

“I had a wheelbarrow, the wheel fell off, I had a wheelbarrow, the wheel fell off, County, County, County”