Marje: but I'm not sure whether young people would all know even those now.

I know all of those, some with all verses, some not quite so complete, but I'm probably of the last generation that *would* (I'm 59). My own children would know very few of those songs, and even for me, Tipperary, Pack up Your Troubles and Daisy Daisy are "songs of my grandparents' generation" so I'm not surprised that they're disappearing from the "collective memory". Not sure why it's a bad thing.....these type of songs would naturally have a mainstream lifetime of only 2-3 generations, IMO, except for the odd one that has stuck around much longer.

In fact I'm surprised they've gone on as long as they have....they're still sung to an extent by the people who visit care homes and do Sunday afternoon recitals to the old folks....but the "old folks" currently in such places are (except for the most senior) much more likely to think of those songs as being from their parents' generation, with songs by Elvis Presley and contemporaries being much stronger in current care home denizens' collective memory than these songs.