"Barrett's Privateers" has fallen in with the likes of "The Old Dun Cow" and a few others as songs that seem to grab many newcomers to 'folkish' music...*sigh*...they LOVE to bellow them out at gatherings, whether or not they understand them, know the tune, get the words right--or have heard it done every week for MONTHS!...

...just a personal observation and peeve..*grin*

(perhaps YOU can think of songs which get overdone this way...)