And in praise of the relatively recent, I seem to remember the works of Rambling Sid Rumpo being sung by fellow school-boys.

Also in that 1960s schoolboy oral tradition was the Tree in a Bog down in the Valley-oh. Was this trad or pastiche? A rare bog, a rattling bog? Trad or fake? Something like it in The Wicker Man tree - nest - bird - feather - bed - maid - man or thereabouts.