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No. 28. Lord Thomas and Fair Ellinor

This, of course, is a very common ballad. The words are on ballad-sheets and in most of the well-known collections, and are fully analyzed in Child’s ''English and Scottish Ballads''. For versions with tunes, see the ''Journal of the Folk-Song Society'' (volume ii, pp.105–108); ''English County Songs'' (p. 42); Sandys’s ''Christmas Carols''; ''Traditional Tunes'' (p. 40); Ritson’s ''Scottish Songs'' (Part iv, p. 228); etc.

The singer assured me that the three lines between the twentieth and twenty-first stanzas were always spoken and never sung. This is the only instance of the kind that I have come across (see ''English Folk Song: Some Conclusions'', p. 6).

Cecil Sharp's Note 28 (1916) - Revision history

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