Leo Maguire's song seeped into Brit DNA via the Elton Hayes version, played frequently on "Children's Favourites". Must have been one of the first er, "folk songs" I ever heard.

Elton also performed the campest version, rewritten by him for the Alan Ladd film The Black Knight. Famously, Alan Ladd's wife wouldn't let Bryan Forbes insert a scene where Mr Ladd stole a horse. She told Forbes "He steals a horse, we lose the Boy Scouts Association and the Daughters of the American Revolution, to say nothing of his fan club".

What these splendid organisations made of THIS is anyone's guess!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=696tg5gX8_E