The Shakespeare comment above seems to have been overlooked. I'm typing now having returned from the club (02-30 UK time). As I remember it (and I'm not searching at this time of night)

When I was but and a little tiny boy,
With a Heigh Ho, the wind and the rain,
A foolish thing was but a toy
And the rain it raineth every day"

That last line definitely makes it a British song!!

Nigel