"I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet; and yet it is sung but by some blind crowder, with no rougher voice than rude style," wrote the Elizabethan courtier Sir Philip Sidney in his 'An Apology for Poetry, or a Defense of Poesy', 1579.

That would have been the ballad we call Chevy Chase: so there is one performance on record for you, Walkabouts — indeed, the way Sidney writes makes it sound as if he quite often heard it.

Sidney, btw, has gone down to history and added a phrase to the language, as the wounded general who died after the Battle of Zütphen, having, according to legend, insisted that a wounded common soldier beside him should be given a drink of water first with the words "Thy need is greater than mine". Si non e verro, e ben trovato & all that.