Good point about whaling songs (a record of the practice rather than glorifying it), but I did Shoals of Herring recently, and wondered if younger audiences might now regard it as environmentally unsound practice. Some of the jargon/dialect words, painstakingly researched by McColl at the time, probably mean nothing to them either. But then what about all the classic coal mining songs, and the pit disaster ones in particular? We can’t pension them off just because some find (previous) exploitation of finite resources now unacceptable. At least we can still play the Foxhunter’s Slip Jig, without actually mentioning the title.