This isn't about songs - it's about stories!

Yep, Gotham. Also Coggeshall, in Essex (tried to divert a stream by fixing hurdles in its bed, chained up a wheelbarrow after a mad dog bit it, just in case). There's a village on the Isle of Wight ditto (but can't remember its name). The point is that these are transferable tales. Every county in the country has its village of proverbial idiots. Look closely enough, if the tales have survived the age of the mass media, & you'll find 'em.

Now, where did they *really* start... *BG*