The Rochester Recruiting Sergeant, to tune similar to Waltzing Matilda, mentioned above as a recent song, can't be that recent, as it is also called The Gay Fusilier & begins "The gay fusilier came marching down thru Rochester": surely a formulation which would have been unthinkable for the last 50 or so years, since the homosexual community hijacked that fine old adjective 'gay' for their own purposes ~~ I first came across this usage in Peter Wildeblood's account of his 1950s trial along with Lord Montagu Against The Law 1954} ~~ to the extent that this is now the "in modern use" given by, e.g., Chambers Dictionary, with other usages rubricated as archaic or obsolescent.

{I am sure we would all [except perhaps Ake] agree that they are of course welcome to a non-pejorative word; but it seems a pity to me that such a fine, gay old word should have been lost to the language!}