To add to a bit of thread-drift from way way back. B Greenhaus remarked that you could sing Jabberwocky to Ode To Joy. Also, I find, to tune of any ballad: have just tried it out: to both the Young Laboo & the Matty Groves variants of Little Musgrave; to both the Bert Lloyd & the Matthew Hodgart versions of Bitter Withy; to Queen Eleanor's Confession; & to Young Johnston & the Young Colonel which I sing on my own Brewhouse record Butter&Cheese&All [BH 8904] — & it goes fine to all. Indeed, as we all know, any ballad tune will do for any ballad: the association of particular tunes to particular ballads always seems a bit arbitrary to me. But anyhow, it was ballad-metre that Carroll used for Jabberwocky: so there you go...