Refreshing this thread after a coon's age, I know.

The tune to this song (as gathered from the midi in the DT) was in my head early, as I was just waking from a dream. ...It's been stuck there as an earworm, ever since.

One could certainly have a much worse fate.

Elizabethans thought really silly, impossible stuff was funny (especially when drunk).

I've been witness, on several occasions in my life, to drunken 20th and 21at Century Americans (and Brits), and can say with confidence that the same holds true for them, as well.