It's definitely English - we had to learn a version (not quite the same words) at school. It refers to the Inclosure Acts, pursuant to which almost all common land in England passed into private ownership - but curiously the maps for which have helped to preserve the rights of way recorded on them.   

I can get a date for the Acts, but I don't have it in my head.

I know a tune for it, but it is contemporary, written by two twin brothers called Worral, at school. They even got to bring their guitars into a history lesson and sing it to us.

Problem is I neither write dots nor MIDI nor ABC, so passing on said tune might be tricky. As well as an infringment of copyright.