G'day weelittledrummer,

If you are including The Wild Colonial Boy in "Songs you thought were trad" ... I would have to ask how much more "trad" you ask of a song descended from a verse surreptitiously written on a stolen piece of paper by an Irish convict ... himself noting down the convict stories, of escapee/bushranger Jack Donahoe, that were already old when he was transported to Australia, in the 1830s.

A lot of things that were blatantly commercial may have happened to the song, starting a century or so, later ... but its pedigree seems rock-solid trad.

Regards,

Bob