"Heady maybe, but historically wayward too"
Not bad for a semi-literate Traveller though
These songs, folk or otherwise, are seldom, if ever, historically correct - one of the verses says:

"We taught the Emperor Nero how to play the pipes,
Way back in the days of Rome"

All very tongue-in-cheek and expected to be taken this way - ah well

As far as I'm concerned, it's streets ahead of the Imperialist hymns were were taught in school about civilising the savages
Give us a break Blandy!
Jim Carroll