I remember in a Burl Ives Songbook there was a set of words to "The World turned upside down", supposed to be the tune the British played somewhere when they surrendered to the Americans.

It's one of these songs about mice chasing cats, and cheese chasing mice or something, I seem to remember.

No, I've just found the book, which I haven't looked at in years. Published in '53

If buttercups buzzed after the bee,
if boats were on land, churches on sea,
if ponies rode men and if grass ate the cows,
and cats should be chased into holes by the mouse,
if the mamas sold their babies
to the gypsies for half-a-crown,
if summer were spring,
and the other way round,
then all the world would be upside down.

And it was Yorktown where the British surrendered. You likely know that already.

Mind, whether it's the same tune, I don't know. (There's at least one other song with the same title, Leon Rosselson's modern song about the Digggers, and there may well be other older ones.)