Although the locrian isn't found in English traditional music, I think it is used in music from other countries; they'd probably think it was a serious mode!

Since doc.tom mentioned John Kirkpatrick's Dust To Dust, here's a transcription of the song which I found on the ITRAD-L list archives. I've respaced the music and set the key to Locrian (although it was given as a locrian tune, the transcriber had still specified the key as C, with the locrian only in a note - seemed a strange way to do it).

Mick

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X:1
T:Dust To Dust
C:John Kirkpatrick
Z:Paul de Grae (at least he posted it on ITRAD-L list)
M:3/4
L:1/4
K:B loc
B,2 C|D2 E|F2 D|B2
w:Digg-ing graves is my de-light,
c|B2 A|F2 E|D2 C|D B,2|
w:A-digg-ing graves for you to lie in
B,2 C|D2 E|F2 D|B2
w:Digg-ing graves from morn to night,
c|B2 A|F2 E|D2 C|D B,2|
w:I earns me liv-ing from the dy-ing
B2 c|B2 A|F2 E|D2
w:Digg-ing graves the whole night long,
D|B2 c|d2 c|B2 A|F2
w:And as I dig I sing this song
A|B2 c|BBA|F2 E|D2 z||
w:To a-ny bo-dy who comes a-long.
B,2 C|D2 E|FED|EA2-|A2
w:Dust to dust and ash-es to ash-es_
E| F2 E|D2 C|B,3|]
w:And so my song goes on.