Note particularly, in the thread linked to by BKLick's posting, the comments by me & others about Kipling. If not an honorary folkie, he was at any rate a more than honorary songwriter. Many of his poems (including many that did not invite the process by including "Song" or "Ballad" in the title) were set to music *repeatedly*; quite a few made it into the music halls, according to Orwell.

There seems to be no way of finding out whether he himself had any particular tunes in mind.