I've recently become mildly obsessed by Andy Stewart's rendition of the utterly brilliant 'Errant Apprentice', a comic folksong by Bill Watkins. It's worthy of Gilbert, though probably not Sullivan's line of country.

http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/folk-song-lyrics/Errant_Apprentice.htm (there's a typo in the penultimate line, though: the last clause ought to read 'worth lying for'....)