About five years ago I was at a singaround full of long in the tooth folkies like me, and a lad of perhaps 15 was there. When it got round to him he was clearly nervous, saying he hadn't sung in public before but if it was ok he would try 'The Leaving of Liverpool'. We all said that would be fine, though you could see in people's eyes an expression of "that was sung to death in the 60s"..

… At which point we all discovered we couldn't remember it any more.