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English County Songs: Words and Music
English County Songs: Words and Music
Collected and Edited by Lucy E.Broadwood and J.A.Fuller Maitland M.A.,F.S.A
Collected and Edited by [[Lucy Broadwood|Lucy E. Broadwood]] and [[J.A.Fuller Maitland]] M.A.,F.S.A


Published by The Leadenhall Press Ltd, 50 Leadenhall Street, London E.C.
Published by The Leadenhall Press Ltd, 50 Leadenhall Street, London E.C.
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'''INDEX OF SONGS'''
== Index of songs ==


A Cheshire Man went to Spain


Adam and Eve
[[A Cheshire Man went to Spain]]


A dashing young lad from Buckingham
[[Adam and Eve]]


Ah! There was an old man
[[A dashing young lad from Buckingham]]


All on Spurn Point
[[Ah! There was an old man]]


A North-Country Maid
[[All on Spurn Point]]


An outlandish Knight
[[A North-Country Maid]]


Around the green gravel
[[Outlandish Knight, The|An Outlandish Knight]]


As I rode over yonger forest green
[[Around the green gravel]]


As I sat on a Sunny Bank
[[As I rode over yonder forest green]]


As it fell out upon one day
[[As I sat on a Sunny Bank]]


As I walked out
[[As it fell out upon one day]]


As I walked through Bristol City
[[As I walked out]]


As I was a-walking one morning in May
[[As I walked through Bristol City]]


As I was going to Derby
[[As I was a-walking one morning in May]]


As me and my marrow
[[As I was going to Derby]]


A soul! a soul! a soul-cake
[[As me and my marrow]]


A varmer he lived in the West Countree
[[A soul! a soul! a soul-cake]]


A Virgin unspotted
[[A varmer he lived in the West Countree]]


[[A Virgin unspotted]]




Banks of the Sweet Dundee, The


Barkshire Tragedy, The
[[Banks of the Sweet Dundee, The]]


Beautiful Damsel, The
[[Barkshire Tragedy, The]]


Bedlam City
[[Beautiful Damsel, The]]


Bristol City
[[Bedlam City]]


[[Bristol City]]




Carter's Health, The


Cheerful Arn, The
[[Carter's Health, The]]


Cheshire Man, The
[[Cheerful Arn, The]]


Collier's Rant, The
[[Cheshire Man, The]]


Cold Blows the Wind
[[Collier's Rant, The]]


Come all you lads and lasses
[[Cold Blows the Wind]]


Come, all you jolly ploughmen
[[Come all you lads and lasses]]


Come, Deavie, I'll tell thee a secret
[[Come, all you jolly ploughmen]]


Come, I will sing to you
[[Come, Deavie, I'll tell thee a secret]]


Come listen awhile unto my song
[[Come, I will sing to you]]


Crocodile,The
[[Come listen awhile unto my song]]


[[Crocodile,The]]




Derby Ram, The


Dives and Lazarus
[[Derby Ram, The]]


Down by the side of Bedlam City
[[Dives and Lazarus]]


[[Down by the side of Bedlam City]]




Easter Day was a holiday


Faithful Emma
[[Easter Day was a holiday]]


Farewell, my Joy and Heart
[[Faithful Emma]]


Farmer's Boy, The
[[Farewell, my Joy and Heart]]


Farmer's daughter, The
[[Farmer's Boy, The]]


Feast Song
[[Farmer's daughter, The]]


[[Feast Song]]


Garden Gate, The
[[Garden Gate, The]]


Golden Vanity, The
[[Golden Vanity, The]]


[[Good Old Leathern Bottle, The]]
[[Good Old Leathern Bottle, The]]


Green Broom
[[Green Broom]]


Green Bushes,The
[[Green Bushes,The]]


Green Gravel
[[Green Gravel]]


Green Grow the Rushes Oh!
[[Green Grow the Rushes Oh!]]


Ground for the Floor
[[Ground for the Floor]]






Harvest Song
[[Harvest Song]]


Here come three dukes
[[Here come three dukes]]


Here's a health to the jolly blacksmith
[[Here's a health to the jolly blacksmith]]


Here's a health unto our master
[[Here's a health unto our master]]


Here's a health unto the mistress
[[Here's a health unto the mistress]]


Here's two or three jolly lads
[[Here's two or three jolly lads]]


Here we come a-wassailing
[[Here we come a-wassailing]]


Hold up thy hand, most righteous judge
[[Hold up thy hand, most righteous judge]]


Ho! yonder stands a charming creature
[[Ho! yonder stands a charming creature]]






I been a-rambling all this night
[[I been a-rambling all this night]]


I cannot get to my love
[[I cannot get to my love]]


I'll spread the greeen branches
[[I'll spread the greeen branches]]


I'll tell you of a fellow
[[I'll tell you of a fellow]]


I'll weave my love a garland
[[I'll weave my love a garland]]


I'm a man that's done wrong to my parents
[[I'm a man that's done wrong to my parents]]


In Bethlehem City
[[In Bethlehem City]]


In Thorney woods in Nottinghamshire
[[In Thorney woods in Nottinghamshire]]


I once loved a boy
[[I once loved a boy]]


Is any of you going to Scarborough fair?
[[Is any of you going to Scarborough fair?]]


I sowed the seeds of love
[[I sowed the seeds of love]]


It's of a farmer's daughter
[[It's of a farmer's daughter]]


It was one summer's morning
[[It was one summer's morning]]


Ive lived in a wood for a number of years
[[Ive lived in a wood for a number of years]]


I will give you the Keys of Heaven
[[I will give you the Keys of Heaven]]






John Appleby
[[John Appleby]]


Jolly Ploughboy, The
[[Jolly Ploughboy, The]]


[[King Arthur had three sons]]


King Arthur had three sons
[[Lavender cries]]


[[Lazarus]]


Lavender cries
[[Little Sir William]]


Lazarus
[[Lord Bateman]]


Little Sir William
[[Lord Thomas he was a bold forester]]


Lord Bateman
[[Loyal Lover, The]]


Lord Thomas he was a bold forester
[[Lurg geurey gy niaghtey]]


Loyal Lover, The
[[May-Day carols]]


Lurg geurey gy niaghtey
[[Me mither mend't me auld breek]]


[[Mistress's health, The]]


May-Day carols
[[My bonnie,bonnie boy]]


Me mither mend't me auld breek
[[My Johnny was a shoemaker]]


Mistress's health, The
[[Mylecharane]]


My bonnie,bonnie boy


My Johnny was a shoemaker


Mylecharane
[[Nottinghamshire Poacher, The]]


[[Now listen, you landsmen, unto me]]


[[Now,Robin, lend to me thy bow]]


Nottinghamshire Poacher, The
[[Ny Kirree Fo-Sniaghtey]]


Now listen, you landsmen, unto me
[[Oats and Beans]]


Now,Robin, lend to me thy bow
[[Of all the horses in the merry greenwood]]


Ny Kirree Fo-Sniaghtey
[[O father, father, come build me a boat]]


[["Oh hangman, hold thy hand" he cried]]


Oats and Beans
[[Old Tup, The]]


Of all the horses in the merry greenwood
[[Oliver Cromwell lay buried and dead]]


O father, father, come build me a boat
[[O Mylechrane]]


"Oh hangman, hold thy hand" he cried
[[One Morning in May]]


Old Tup, The
[[One very keen winter]]


Oliver Cromwell lay buried and dead
[[One Zunday Morn]]


O Mylechrane
[[Our Mistress's health we now begin]]


One Morning in May
[[Our sheep-shearing done]]


One very keen winter
[[Our sheep-shear is over]]


One Zunday Morn
[[Outlandish Knight,The]]


Our Mistress's health we now begin
[[O Vylecharane]]


Our sheep-shearing done


Our sheep-shear is over


Outlandish Knight,The
[[Painful (or Faithful) Plough, The]]


O Vylecharane
[[Peace-Egging Songs]]


[[Poor Mary is weeping]]


[[Prickly Bush,The]]


Painful (or Faithful) Plough, The
[[Reaphook and Sickle, The]]


Peace-Egging Songs
[[Robbie Tamson's Smiddie]]


Poor Mary is weeping
[[Robin-a-Thrush]]


Prickly Bush,The
[[Robin he married a wife in the west]]




Reaphook and Sickle, The


Robbie Tamson's Smiddie
[[Sally Gray]]


Robin-a-Thrush
[[Scarborough Fair]]


Robin he married a wife in the west
[[Seasons of the Year, The]]


[[Seeds of Love, The]]


[[Servingman and the Husbandman, The]]


Sally Gray
[[Sheepcrook and Blackdog]]


Scarborough Fair
[[Sheep-shearing songs]]


Seasons of the Year, The
[[Shepherd's Song, The]]


Seeds of Love, The
[[Souling Song, The]]


Servingman and the Husbandman, The
[[Spier, The]]


Sheepcrook and Blackdog
[[Sprig of Thyme, The]]


Sheep-shearing songs
[[Stratton Church Chimes]]


Shepherd's Song, The
[[Sweet Nightingale, The]]


Souling Song, The
[[Sweet William]]


Spier, The
[[Sword Dance Song]]


Sprig of Thyme, The


Stratton Church Chimes


Sweet Nightingale, The
[[The Cheerful Arn]]


Sweet William
[[The day was gone]]


Sword Dance Song
[[The lambs they skip with pleasure]]


[[The Moon shines Bright]]


[[There was a Lady in the West]]


The Cheerful Arn
[[There was a Pig went out to dig]]


The day was gone
[[There was a ship from the north country]]


The lambs they skip with pleasure
[[There was a tree, and a very fine tree]]


The Moon shines Bright
[[There were three sisters fair and bright]]


There was a Lady in the West
[[There were two loving brothers]]


There was a Pig went out to dig
[[The sun it goes down]]


There was a ship from the north country
[[The sun went down beyond yon hill]]


There was a tree, and a very fine tree
[[Three Dukes, The]]


There were three sisters fair and bright
[[Thresher and the Squire, The]]


There were two loving brothers
[['Tis of a bold thresherman]]


The sun it goes down
[['Tis of a fair damsel]]


The sun went down beyond yon hill
[['Tis young men and maidens all]]


Three Dukes, The
[[Tree in the Valley, The]]


Thresher and the Squire, The
[[Tripping up the Green Grass]]


'Tis of a bold thresherman
[[Turmut-hoeing]]


'Tis of a fair damsel
[[Twankydillo]]


'Tis young men and maidens all
[['Twas on a jolly summer's morn]]


Tree in the Valley, The
[[Twelve Apostles, The]]


Tripping up the Green Grass
[[Twenty, Eighteen]]


Turmut-hoeing


Twankydillo


'Twas on a jolly summer's morn
[[Undaunted Female, The]]


Twelve Apostles, The


Twenty, Eighteen


[[Venus and Adonis]]




Undaunted Female, The


[[Wassail Bough, The]]


[[Water of Tyne, The]]


Venus and Adonis
[[Well met my brother friend]]


[[We Shepherds are the Best of Men]]


Wassail Bough, The
[[Will you buy my sweet lavender?]]


Water of Tyne, The


Well met my brother friend


We shepherds are the best of men
[[Young Herchard]]
 
Will you buy my sweet lavender?
 
 
 
Young Herchard
 
You noble spectators


[[You noble spectators]]




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== Structure of the book ==
 


The book is divided up into "chapters" each of which gives songs attributed to a grouping of counties, as follows:
The book is divided up into "chapters" each of which gives songs attributed to a grouping of counties, as follows:
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'''Songs of the Northern Counties'''
'''Songs of the Northern Counties'''


Northumberland
[[Northumberland]]


Cumberland
[[Cumberland]]


Durham
[[Durham]]


Yorkshire
[[Yorkshire]]


Westmoreland
[[Westmoreland]]


'''Songs of the North-Western Counties'''
'''Songs of the North-Western Counties'''


Lancashire
[[Lancashire]]


Cheshire
[[Cheshire]]


Shropshire
[[Shropshire]]


Isle of Man
[[Isle of Man]]


'''Songs of the Midland Counties'''
'''Songs of the Midland Counties'''


Staffordshire
[[Staffordshire]]


Derbyshire
[[Derbyshire]]


Nottinghamshire
[[Nottinghamshire]]


Leicestershire
[[Leicestershire]]


Rutlandshire
[[Rutlandshire]]


Huntingdonshire
[[Huntingdonshire]]


Northamptonshire
[[Northamptonshire]]


Oxfordshire
[[Oxfordshire]]


Warwickshire
[[Warwickshire]]


Worcestershire
[[Worcestershire]]


Herefordshire
[[Herefordshire]]


Gloucestershire
[[Gloucestershire]]


Monmouthshire
[[Monmouthshire]]


'''Songs of the Eastern Counties'''
'''Songs of the Eastern Counties'''


Lincolnshire
[[Lincolnshire]]


Norfolk
[[Norfolk]]


Suffolk
[[Suffolk]]


Cambridgeshire
[[Cambridgeshire]]


Essex
[[Essex]]


'''Songs of the Home Counties'''
'''Songs of the Home Counties'''


Middlesex
[[Middlesex]]


Hertfordshire
[[Hertfordshire]]


Bedfordshire
[[Bedfordshire]]


Buckinghamshire
[[Buckinghamshire]]


Berkshire
[[Berkshire]]


Surrey
[[Surrey]]


'''Songs of the South Coast'''
'''Songs of the South Coast'''


Kent
[[Kent]]


Sussex
[[Sussex]]


Hampshire
[[Hampshire]]


Wiltshire
[[Wiltshire]]


Dorsetshire
[[Dorsetshire]]


Somersetshire
[[Somersetshire]]


Devonshire
[[Devonshire]]


Cornwall
[[Cornwall]]


'''Songs of the Sea'''
'''Songs of the Sea'''


All on Spurn Point
[[All on Spurn Point]]


My Johnny was a shoemaker
[[My Johnny was a shoemaker]]


The Golden Vanity
[[Golden Vanity, The|The Golden Vanity]]


The Crocodile
[[Crocodile , The|The Crocodile]]




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As can be seen from these groupings, particularly the last one, there was a somewhat arbitrary nature to the allocation to a particular grouping, and the appropriateness of its title (for instance, Wiltshire has been included in the grouping for the South Coast, and large tranches of various of the other counties are nowhere near a coastline!)
As can be seen from these groupings, particularly the last one, there was a somewhat arbitrary nature to the allocation to a particular grouping, and the appropriateness of its title (for instance, Wiltshire has been included in the grouping for the South Coast, and large tranches of various of the other counties are nowhere near a coastline!)


Three counties were also missing from the overall collection - Monmouthshire, Bedfordshire and Huntingdonshire.
Three counties were also missing from the overall collection – [[Monmouthshire]], [[Bedfordshire]] and [[Huntingdonshire]].


The actual allocation of songs to particular counties was also somewhat less than accurate. In one or two instances a song collected in one particular county has been allocated to another because it was known that the version in question was sung there, or because the singer had actual associations with the county in question, although no longer living there.
The actual allocation of songs to particular counties was also somewhat less than accurate. In one or two instances a song collected in one particular county has been allocated to another because it was known that the version in question was sung there, or because the singer had actual associations with the county in question, although no longer living there.

Latest revision as of 21:27, 26 October 2009

English County Songs was published by Leadenhall Press in 1893.

The full title of the work, as illustrated on the frontispiece is

English County Songs: Words and Music Collected and Edited by Lucy E. Broadwood and J.A.Fuller Maitland M.A.,F.S.A

Published by The Leadenhall Press Ltd, 50 Leadenhall Street, London E.C. J.B.Cramer and Co, 201 Regent Street, w. Simpkin,Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Co., Ltd New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 743 and 745, Broadway.



Index of songs

A Cheshire Man went to Spain

Adam and Eve

A dashing young lad from Buckingham

Ah! There was an old man

All on Spurn Point

A North-Country Maid

An Outlandish Knight

Around the green gravel

As I rode over yonder forest green

As I sat on a Sunny Bank

As it fell out upon one day

As I walked out

As I walked through Bristol City

As I was a-walking one morning in May

As I was going to Derby

As me and my marrow

A soul! a soul! a soul-cake

A varmer he lived in the West Countree

A Virgin unspotted


Banks of the Sweet Dundee, The

Barkshire Tragedy, The

Beautiful Damsel, The

Bedlam City

Bristol City


Carter's Health, The

Cheerful Arn, The

Cheshire Man, The

Collier's Rant, The

Cold Blows the Wind

Come all you lads and lasses

Come, all you jolly ploughmen

Come, Deavie, I'll tell thee a secret

Come, I will sing to you

Come listen awhile unto my song

Crocodile,The


Derby Ram, The

Dives and Lazarus

Down by the side of Bedlam City


Easter Day was a holiday

Faithful Emma

Farewell, my Joy and Heart

Farmer's Boy, The

Farmer's daughter, The

Feast Song

Garden Gate, The

Golden Vanity, The

Good Old Leathern Bottle, The

Green Broom

Green Bushes,The

Green Gravel

Green Grow the Rushes Oh!

Ground for the Floor


Harvest Song

Here come three dukes

Here's a health to the jolly blacksmith

Here's a health unto our master

Here's a health unto the mistress

Here's two or three jolly lads

Here we come a-wassailing

Hold up thy hand, most righteous judge

Ho! yonder stands a charming creature


I been a-rambling all this night

I cannot get to my love

I'll spread the greeen branches

I'll tell you of a fellow

I'll weave my love a garland

I'm a man that's done wrong to my parents

In Bethlehem City

In Thorney woods in Nottinghamshire

I once loved a boy

Is any of you going to Scarborough fair?

I sowed the seeds of love

It's of a farmer's daughter

It was one summer's morning

Ive lived in a wood for a number of years

I will give you the Keys of Heaven


John Appleby

Jolly Ploughboy, The

King Arthur had three sons

Lavender cries

Lazarus

Little Sir William

Lord Bateman

Lord Thomas he was a bold forester

Loyal Lover, The

Lurg geurey gy niaghtey

May-Day carols

Me mither mend't me auld breek

Mistress's health, The

My bonnie,bonnie boy

My Johnny was a shoemaker

Mylecharane


Nottinghamshire Poacher, The

Now listen, you landsmen, unto me

Now,Robin, lend to me thy bow

Ny Kirree Fo-Sniaghtey

Oats and Beans

Of all the horses in the merry greenwood

O father, father, come build me a boat

"Oh hangman, hold thy hand" he cried

Old Tup, The

Oliver Cromwell lay buried and dead

O Mylechrane

One Morning in May

One very keen winter

One Zunday Morn

Our Mistress's health we now begin

Our sheep-shearing done

Our sheep-shear is over

Outlandish Knight,The

O Vylecharane


Painful (or Faithful) Plough, The

Peace-Egging Songs

Poor Mary is weeping

Prickly Bush,The

Reaphook and Sickle, The

Robbie Tamson's Smiddie

Robin-a-Thrush

Robin he married a wife in the west


Sally Gray

Scarborough Fair

Seasons of the Year, The

Seeds of Love, The

Servingman and the Husbandman, The

Sheepcrook and Blackdog

Sheep-shearing songs

Shepherd's Song, The

Souling Song, The

Spier, The

Sprig of Thyme, The

Stratton Church Chimes

Sweet Nightingale, The

Sweet William

Sword Dance Song


The Cheerful Arn

The day was gone

The lambs they skip with pleasure

The Moon shines Bright

There was a Lady in the West

There was a Pig went out to dig

There was a ship from the north country

There was a tree, and a very fine tree

There were three sisters fair and bright

There were two loving brothers

The sun it goes down

The sun went down beyond yon hill

Three Dukes, The

Thresher and the Squire, The

'Tis of a bold thresherman

'Tis of a fair damsel

'Tis young men and maidens all

Tree in the Valley, The

Tripping up the Green Grass

Turmut-hoeing

Twankydillo

'Twas on a jolly summer's morn

Twelve Apostles, The

Twenty, Eighteen


Undaunted Female, The


Venus and Adonis


Wassail Bough, The

Water of Tyne, The

Well met my brother friend

We Shepherds are the Best of Men

Will you buy my sweet lavender?


Young Herchard

You noble spectators


It should be noted that the index of songs also incorporates an index of first lines;and some songs are given more than one title. Thus one song may appear more than once in the index (eg Dives and Lazarus, and Lazarus, and As it fell out upon one day are all entries for the same song - titled "Lazarus" on the relevant page of the book)


Structure of the book

The book is divided up into "chapters" each of which gives songs attributed to a grouping of counties, as follows:

Songs of the Northern Counties

Northumberland

Cumberland

Durham

Yorkshire

Westmoreland

Songs of the North-Western Counties

Lancashire

Cheshire

Shropshire

Isle of Man

Songs of the Midland Counties

Staffordshire

Derbyshire

Nottinghamshire

Leicestershire

Rutlandshire

Huntingdonshire

Northamptonshire

Oxfordshire

Warwickshire

Worcestershire

Herefordshire

Gloucestershire

Monmouthshire

Songs of the Eastern Counties

Lincolnshire

Norfolk

Suffolk

Cambridgeshire

Essex

Songs of the Home Counties

Middlesex

Hertfordshire

Bedfordshire

Buckinghamshire

Berkshire

Surrey

Songs of the South Coast

Kent

Sussex

Hampshire

Wiltshire

Dorsetshire

Somersetshire

Devonshire

Cornwall

Songs of the Sea

All on Spurn Point

My Johnny was a shoemaker

The Golden Vanity

The Crocodile


As can be seen from these groupings, particularly the last one, there was a somewhat arbitrary nature to the allocation to a particular grouping, and the appropriateness of its title (for instance, Wiltshire has been included in the grouping for the South Coast, and large tranches of various of the other counties are nowhere near a coastline!)

Three counties were also missing from the overall collection – Monmouthshire, Bedfordshire and Huntingdonshire.

The actual allocation of songs to particular counties was also somewhat less than accurate. In one or two instances a song collected in one particular county has been allocated to another because it was known that the version in question was sung there, or because the singer had actual associations with the county in question, although no longer living there.


--Irene Shettle 01:02, 8 October 2007 (BST)