Rubber Folk is pretty good proof to me that Lennon & McCartney songs can certainly sound "folk". That Waterson: Carthy messed up Norwegian Wood a bit was a shame, but that was more than made up by John Tams treatment of Girl.

The older a song becomes, the less the artificial descriptions of "popular" or "folk" mater anyway.

Some folk manage to tie themselves up in knots as to whether it is folk or not by making a destinction regarding the lyrical content. However, I defy anyone to tell me what is so different as to the lyrical contezt of Girl and Greensleeves.

For those folk that say it's not "folk" unless it's been sung by someone associated with the Waterson or Carthy or Copper clans, well a deed poll changed John Winston Lennon into John Ono Lennon and I'm sure John Lennon-Carthy would have been feasible if he were still with us. Fortunately the buskers round me don't need to know if Eliza has covered a 40 year old song before they will play it and they won't in another 40 years either.