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| Cecil J. Sharp (1916) ''One Hundred English Folk Songs'' can be freely downloaded from the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP) here.[http://imslp.org/wiki/100_English_Folksongs_(Sharp,_Cecil)] | | PDF page images of Cecil J. Sharp (1916) ''One Hundred English Folk Songs'' can be freely downloaded from the Internet Archive here.[https://archive.org/details/onehundredengli00shargoog/page/n11/mode/2up] |
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| | ABC file of all 100 folk songs: [[File:Sharp100.abc]] |
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| | '''BALLADS''' |
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| | '''[[01 Henry Martin]]''' |
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| | '''[[02 Bruton Town]]''' |
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| | '''[[03 The Knight and the Shepherd's Daughter]]''' |
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| | '''[[04 Robin Hood and the Tanner]]''' |
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| | '''[[05 The Wraggle Taggle Gypsies, O!]]''' |
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| | '''[[06 Lord Bateman]]''' |
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| | '''[[07 Barbara Ellen]]''' |
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| | '''[[08 Little Sir Hugh]]''' |
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| | '''[[09 Geordie]]''' |
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| | '''[[10 Lady Maisrie]]''' |
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| | '''[[11 The Outlandish Knight]]''' |
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| | '''[[12 The Coasts of High Barbary]]''' |
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| | '''[[13 The Cruel Mother]]''' |
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| | '''[[14 The Golden Vanity]]''' |
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| | '''[[15 Lord Thomas of Winesbury]]''' |
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| | '''[[16 The Green Wedding]]''' |
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| | '''[[17 The Briery Bush]]''' |
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| | '''[[18 Lord Rendal]]''' |
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| | '''[[19 Blow Away the Morning Dew]]''' |
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| | '''[[20 The Two Magicians]]''' |
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| | '''[[21 The Duke of Bedford]]''' |
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| | '''[[22 Death and the Lady]]''' |
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| | '''[[23 The Low, Low Lands of Holland]]''' |
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| | '''[[24 The Unquiet Grave ''or'' Cold blows the wind]]''' |
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| | '''[[25 The trees they do grow high]]''' |
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| | '''[[26 Lord Lovel]]''' |
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| | '''[[27 False Lamkin]]''' |
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| | '''[[28 Lord Thomas and Fair Ellinor]]''' |
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| | '''[[29 The Death of Queen Jane]]''' |
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| | '''SONGS''' |
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| | '''[[30 Farewell, Nancy]]''' |
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| '''[[31 Sweet Kitty]]''' | | '''[[31 Sweet Kitty]]''' |
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| | '''[[32 The Crystal Spring]]''' |
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| | '''[[33 The Seeds of Love]]''' |
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| | '''[[34 The Sprig of Thyme]]''' |
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| | '''[[35 The Cuckoo]]''' |
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| | '''[[36 Blackbirds and Thrushes]]''' |
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| | '''[[37 The Drowned Lover]]''' |
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| | '''[[38 The Sign of the Bonny Blue Bell]]''' |
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| Tune Analysis: Heptatonic. C Dorian. Note how all the A flats are naturalised. If they were not the tune would be C Aeolian.
| | '''[[39 O Waly, Waly]]''' |
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| Sheet Music (1916) [[File:31SweKit_1916_Sheet_Music-pdf.pdf]]
| | '''[[40 Green Bushes]]''' |
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| Cecil Sharp's Note (1916) [[File:31SweKit_1916_Note.pdf]]
| | '''[[41 Bedlam]]''' |
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| MIDI Sequence [[File:31SweKit.mid]]
| | '''[[42 The Bold Fisherman]]''' |
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| PDF [[File:31SweKit.pdf]]
| | '''[[43 The Rambling Sailor]]''' |
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| Music XML [[File:31SweKit.xml]]
| | '''[[44 Dabbling in the Dew]]''' |
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| | '''[[45 The Saucy Sailor]]''' |
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| X:31<br>
| | '''[[46 Fanny Blair]]''' |
| T:31 Sweet Kitty<br>
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| C::From 'One Hundred English Folk Songs' (1916) <br>
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| P:Collected by Cecil J. Sharp<br>
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| L:1/4<br>
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| Z:Transcribed by Lewis Jones<br>
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| w: As|he was a-|rid\- * ing and a|ri- ding one|day, He|met prett- y|Kitt- y all|on the * high-|way. Sing *|<br>
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| w: Fol the didd- le|de- ro,|Fol the didd- le|de ro, Sing|le- ro\- * i-|day.|<br>
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| W:1 As he was a-riding, and a-riding one day,<br>
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| W:He met with sweet Kitty all on the highway;<br>
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| W:Chorus Sing fol the diddle dero,<br>
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| W:Fol the diddle dero,<br>
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| W:Sing le-ro-i-day.<br>
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| W:2 I gave her a wink and she roll'd her black eye;<br>
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| W:Thinks I to myself I'll be there by and by.<br>
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| W:3 Come saddle my horse and away I will ride<br>
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| W:To meet with sweet Kitty down by the seaside.<br>
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| W:4 Six times he rode round her, but he did not know;<br>
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| W:She smiled in his face and said: There goes my beau.<br>
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| W:5 I said: Pretty maiden don't smile in my face,<br>
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| W:I do not intend to stay long in this place.<br>
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| W:6 If you'd know my name, you must go and enquire;<br>
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| W:I was born in old England, brought up in Yorkshire.<br>
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| W:7 Come, all pretty maidens, whoever you be,<br>
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| W:With roving young fellows don't make yourself free.<br>
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| | '''[[47 Arise, Arise]]''' |
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| '''34 The Sprig of Thyme''' | | '''[[48 Searching for Lambs]]''' |
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| Tune Analysis: In his Note Sharp designates this tune as Aeolian. More precisely, it is either A Aeolian or A Dorian. It is Hexatonic with no F (6th). If the Fs are presumed to be natural the tune is indeed A Aeolian; but if they are presumed to be sharpened the tune is A Dorian.
| | '''[[49 Green Broom]]''' |
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| Sheet Music (1916) [[File:34SprThy_1916_Sheet_Music.pdf]]
| | '''[[50 Bonny Lighter Boy]]''' |
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| Cecil Sharp's Note (1916) [[File:34SprThy_1916_Note.pdf]]
| | '''[[51 The Sweet Primeroses]]''' |
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| MIDI Sequence [[File:34SprThy.mid]]
| | '''[[52 My Bonny, Bonny Boy]]''' |
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| PDF [[File:34SprThy.pdf]]
| | '''[[53a As I walked through the meadows. (''First Version'')]]''' |
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| Music XML [[File:34SprThy.xml]]
| | '''[[53b As I walked through the meadows. (''Second Version'')]]''' |
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| | '''[[54 Erin's Lovely Home]]''' |
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| | '''[[55 The True Lover's Farewell]]''' |
| T:34 The Sprig of Thyme<br>
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| P:Collected by Cecil J. Sharp<br>
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| C:From 'One Hundred English Folk Songs' (1916)<br>
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| w: O|once I had time of my|own, and *|in * my own gard\- * en it|grew. I|<br>
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| w: used to know the place * where my|thyme it did grow, But|now it is cov- er'd with|rue, with rue, But * *|<br>
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| w: now it is cov- er'd with|rue.|<br>
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| W:1. Once I had thyme of my own,<br>
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| W:And in my own garden it grew;<br>
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| W:I used to know the place where my thyme it did grow,<br>
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| W:But now it is cover'd with rue, with rue,<br>
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| W:But now it is cover'd with rue.<br>
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| W: 2 The rue it is a flourishing thing,<br>
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| W:It flourishes by night and by day;<br>
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| W:So beware of a young man's flattering tongue,<br>
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| W:He will steal your thyme away, away,<br>
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| W:He will steal your thyme away.<br>
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| W:3 I sowed my garden full of seeds;<br>
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| W:But the small birds they carried them away<br>
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| W:In April, May, and in June likewise,<br>
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| W:When the small birds sing all day, all day,<br>
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| W:When the small birds sing all day.<br>
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| W:4 In June there was a red-a-rosy bud,<br>
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| W:And that seem'd the flower for me;<br>
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| W:And often times I snatch-ed at the red-a-rosy bud,<br>
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| W:Till I gain-ed the willow, willow tree,<br>
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| W:Till I gain-ed the willow tree.<br>
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| W:5 O the willow, willow tree it will twist,<br>
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| W:And the willow, willow tree it will twine;<br>
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| W:And so it was that young and false-hearted man<br>
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| W:When he gain-ed this heart of mine, of mine,<br>
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| W:When he gain-ed this heart of mine.<br>
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| W:6 O thyme it is a precious, precious thing<br>
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| W:On the road that the sun shines upon;<br>
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| W:But thyme it is a thing that will bring you to an end,<br>
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| W:And that's how my time has gone, has gone,<br>
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| W:And that's how my time has gone.<br>
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| | '''[[56 High Germany]]''' |
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| '''86 Botany Bay''' | | '''[[57 Sweet Lovely Joan]]''' |
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| Tune Analysis: Heptatonic, E Aeolian.
| | '''[[58 My Boy Willie]]''' |
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| Sheet Music (1916) [[File:86BotBay_1916_Sheet_Music.pdf]]
| | '''[[59 Whistle, Daughter, Whistle]]''' |
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| Cecil Sharp's Note (1916) [[File:86BotBay_1916_Note.pdf]]
| | '''[[60 Mowing the Barley]]''' |
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| MIDI Sequence [[File:86BotBay.mid]]
| | '''[[61 I'm Seventeen Come Sunday]]''' |
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| PDF [[File:86BotBay.pdf]]
| | '''[[62 The Lark in the Morn]]''' |
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| Music XML [[File:86BotBay.xml]]
| | '''[[63 Hares on the Mountains]]''' |
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| | '''[[64 O Sally, my dear]]''' |
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| | '''[[65 Gently, Johnny, my Jingalo]]''' |
| T:86 Botany Bay<br>
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| w: Come|all young * men of|learn- ing * good a *|warn\- * ing * take by|me, I'll *|have you quit * night *|<br>
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| w: walk\- * ing and|shun bad comp- a\- *|y; I'll *|have you quit * night *|walk\- * ing or|else you'll rue * the *|<br>
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| w: day, And|you will be trans-|por\- * * ted and *|go * to * Bot- an- y|Bay.|<br>
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| W:1 Come, all young men of learning good, a warning take by me.<br>
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| W:I'll have you quit night-walking and shun bad company;<br>
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| W:I'll have you quit night-walking or else you'll rue the day,<br>
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| W:And you will be transported and go to Botany Bay.<br>
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| W:2 I was brought up in London town, a place I know full well;<br>
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| W:Brought up by honest parents, the truth to you I'll tell.<br>
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| W:Brought up by honest parents, who loved me tenderly,<br>
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| W:Till I became a roving blade to prove my destiny.<br>
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| W:3 My character was taken, and I was sent to gaol.<br>
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| W:My parents tried to clear me but nothing would prevail.<br>
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| W:'Twas at our Rutland sessions the Judge to me did say:<br>
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| W:The Jury's found you guilty, you must go to Botany Bay.<br>
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| W:4 To see my poor old father as he stood at the bar;<br>
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| W:Likewise my dear old mother her old gray locks she tore.<br>
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| W:And in tearing of her old gray locks these words to me she did say:<br>
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| W:O son! O son! what hast thou done? Thou art bound for Botany Bay.<br>
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| W:I do not know of any published versions of this song. I made use of the tune in Mr. Granville Barker's production of<br>
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| | '''[[66 The Keys of Canterbury]]''' |
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| | '''[[69 The Brisk Young Bachelor]]''' |
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| | '''[[70 Ruggleton's Daughter of Iero]]''' |
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| | '''[[71 William Taylor]]''' |
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| | '''[[72 Sweet William]]''' |
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| | '''[[73 The Wachet Sailor]]''' |
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| | '''[[74 Scarborough Fair]]''' |
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| | '''[[75 Brimbledon Fair, ''or'' Young Ramble-Away]]''' |
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| '''''' | | '''[[76 Bridgwater Fair]]''' |
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| | '''[[77 The Crabfish]]''' |
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| | '''[[78 The Beggar]]''' |
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| | '''[[79 The Keeper]]''' |
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| | '''[[80 The Three Sons]]''' |
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| | '''[[81 Jack Hall]]''' |
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| | '''[[82 Driving away at the Smoothing Iron]]''' |
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| | '''[[83 The Robber]]''' |
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| | '''[[84 John Barleycorn]]''' |
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| | '''[[86 Botany Bay]]''' |
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| | '''[[87 Admiral Benbow]]''' |
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| | '''[[88 Bold Nelson's Praise]]''' |
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| | '''[[89 Spanish Ladies]]''' |
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| | '''[[90 The Ship in Distress]]''' |
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| | '''[[91 Come all you worthy Christian men]]''' |
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| | '''[[92 Wassail Song]]''' |
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| | '''[[93 It's a rosebud in June]]''' |
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| | '''[[95 The Sheep-Shearing]]''' |
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| | '''[[96 The Twelve Days of Christmas]]''' |
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| | '''[[97 The Ten Commandments]]''' |
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| | '''[[98 The Tree in the Wood]]''' |
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| | '''[[99 The Barley-Mow]]''' |
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