Many of The Bob's earliest songwriting efforts were very transparent variations on traditional songs, very much like "Bob Dylan's Dream / Lord Franklin." In most of these cases, I was thoroughly familiar with the Dylan song many years before realizing that the traditional antecedent even existed.

For starters, consider two with nearly-identical titles, "Farewell" and "Restless Farewell."

"Farewell" is a reworking of "Leaving of Liverpool," both of which include the line "Fare thee well, my own true love," plus a lot of closely-associated business about leaving/departure, Californ-eye-aye, what's grieving me, writing letters back home, etc. etc.

"Restless Farewell" is a similar elaboration upon "Parting Glass," where the melody is just about identical to the original while the lyrics are original but highly derivative.

When he first arrived in New York, young Bobby hung out with the Clancy Brothers and apparently learned many of these traditional Celtic and/or British songs from them. In the 25th anniversary concert video, one of the brothers is being interviewed; he recalls Bob running up to him once, all excited, bragging "I just wrote a new song on "Brennan on the Moor."

That would be, I believe, "Ramblin' Gamblin' Willie" (not absolutely sure of the title) ~ "Ride Willie Ride, Go Willie Go, Wherever it is you're ramblin now, Nobody knows."