"Aura Lee" is probably as Irish as "Green Fields of France"!

I wouldn't be at all surprised if I came across the claim that Adam and Eve were Irish, even though it would be easy to refute - there are no snakes in Ireland!

I also suspect that "English Country Garden" as a song predates its use as a Morris tune. There are several sets of words to it, including the version which was written, if I recall correctly, by Miles Wootton, which emphasises the downside of gardens and recommends "take a load of redimix, half a ton of broken bricks, spread it and let it harden".

Seriously, though, all songs were composed by someone, sometime. When does a song become "Traditional"? Are Stephen Foster songs traditional? Will Tom Paxton's "Last Thing on my Mind" be traditional 100 years hence?

Alan