If we're side-stepping onto street cries you can take 'Three Jolly Fisherman' back to Lady Nairn's 'Caller Herrin' and then back to the Edinburgh street cry.

Great thread!

Brian, that's an interesting and debatable thought....in order to be classified as a folk song it has to pass through familial generations; generations perhaps, but in a much wider sense.

For instance the terrace cries fulfil all the criteria for folk song but have not necessarily been passed down through families.