well leader of the pack has honourable antcedents - the wild young man come to grief genre, Geordie, whatever it is St James Infirmary used to be called in English.etc.

Can't remember much about RT's song - I hear it quite often, but it sort of washes over me - I suppose you could link it with songs like Creepng Jane and Stewball - fast experiences.

If you don't 'hear' echoes of English folksong, in ordinary people spontaneously trying to express themselves in song in English - my Mother was a Quaker and she used (too often) a very irritating Quaker saying - 'perhaps you have not deeply enough about the subject.' I begin to see what she meant.