Vic Smith

Depends how old a song has to be to be called traditional. I sang "All the girls in Ceylon" in the early fifties, and no doubt it wasn't new even then! The Opies ("The Lore and Language of Children", I think) did quite an extensive study of children's chants and songs, and it turns out many of them have extremely old origins. Anyway, it made me giggle as a child, I'm ashamed to say!