Its odd really, Jim used to rage against his experiences of when he last visited English folk clubs and (horror of horrors!) - there were people there singing Beatle and Buddy Holly songs.

Those songs are sixty (nearly 70!) years old now and they're part of the mental geography of most people living in these islands.

Who gets to choose what are folk songs? The folk of course. You can have as many societies and committees as you like, for the preservation of the arcane and the obscure. But they're all onto a bit of a loser.

'We've lost more than we'll ever know...' sing Show of Hands. Maybe! But we've gained a fair bit, and we should celebrate that.