I don't think rewrites as part of the revivals i.e., post WWII have any relevance to what we're discussing. Tunes also have little meaning except to point out if the 2? songs have any tunes in common or if they are in the same metre. We all know that broadsides and folk songs can and do have a wide variety of tunes. A Bronson-type study would obviously be useful but that's not my expertise. I did do a textual study some time back as we have local versions of BOL. If you can itemise the more scarce ones you have in these several threads I will compare them with what I did earlier and any new texts I've come across since then. I tend to use stematic analysis which easily points up similarities and differences.

GUEST, round here (east Yorkshire) they were called 'pricky-otchins'.

When posting folk items or dialect it's usual and helpful here to at least say where you're from.