Thanks for the Lady Nairn lyrics. My grandfather used to sing it; I'm sure his words were different. A lovely piece.
Mudcat is puttering along on one cylinder again (as usual?) and I can't raise the DT to see the S-W rendition.

The exchange between Bruce O and Alex is amusing reading. I am sure, that if we had all of the old paper, much of Child and much of Sharp would turn out to be composed music.
My definition of folk is music that has lost its composer/author. Incomplete, of course. Perhaps 'music as remembered' would be better.