Didn't Broadside Balladeers make a penny or three peddling broadsides and singing in the streets, once upon a time? SOME of those have become trad...And it wasn't old Mr. anonymous who wrote "If I had a hammer," or "Old devil time."
As far as thw twa Gordons, "Truning toward the Morning" beats out "That's what you get for lovin' me" every time. (But Song for a Winters night is OK.)