I assumed this thread was about the American Revolution-era marching tune. Sure, I've heard the song about the Diggers, but why assume a thread is about a song over twenty years old when it could be about one over two hundred years old?

By the way, I've heard the story about Cornwallis' troops leaving Yorktown after the surrender to the tune of The World Turned Upside Down. However, I've been told by a friend who reads historical research for a hobby, that researchers have looked through the dozens of surviving diaries of people who lived in Yorktown at the time of the surrender. Many of them mention some of the marching tunes that the different British units played. Many different tunes are mentioned, but none of them mention The World Turned Upside Down. It might well have been played by some unit, since it was a popular marching tune, but there is no documentary evidence of it, and it is not true that all of the British troops marched out to that tune. That was the invention of some later historian, who apparently felt that it would have been a particularly appropriate tune for them to have used.

My earliest musical influence? Mitch Miller. I remember distinctly stopping in my tracks in the middle of the kitchen when his recording of The Yellow Rose Of Texas came on the air. I'd never heard anything like it, and it started my love affair with the sound of a group of people singing unaccompanied.