doestarr: Rolling Home from the 1880's? John Tams who wrote it looks remarkably well preserved. Of course folk songs sometimes get ascribed to someone who just found them, but I'm pretty sure that in this case it was John Tams, for a play about the Tolpuddle Martyrs.

doestarr's comment seems to suggest that this is one song that has in fact made it through to genuine folk status. (That's assuming it's the same Rolling Home I'm talking about -