 Despite this, its humour ensured a certain amount of cross-community appeal, especially in the period before the commencement of The Troubles in the late 1960s, and it has also been recorded by artists better-known for songs associated with Irish nationalism, such as The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem and The Dubliners.The tune itself, often referred to as "Villikins and his Dinah" after a music hall song of the 1850s (and in America as "Sweet Betsy from Pike"), has been used with many variations for a large number of folk songs and sea shanties, and has been called the "primal tune".Related fiddle tunes are found as early as the 18th century.