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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
[[A Cheshire Man went to Spain]]


Adam and Eve
[[Adam and Eve]]


A dashing young lad from Buckingham
[[A dashing young lad from Buckingham]]


Ah! There was an old man
[[Ah! There was an old man]]


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


A North-Country Maid
[[A North-Country Maid]]


An outlandish Knight
[[An outlandish Knight]]


Around the green gravel
[[Around the green gravel]]


As I rode over yonder forest green
[[As I rode over yonder forest green]]


As I sat on a Sunny Bank
[[As I sat on a Sunny Bank]]


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


As I walked out
[[As I walked out]]


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


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


As I was going to Derby
[[As I was going to Derby]]


As me and my marrow
[[As me and my marrow]]


A soul! a soul! a soul-cake
[[A soul! a soul! a soul-cake]]


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


A Virgin unspotted
[[A Virgin unspotted]]






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


Barkshire Tragedy, The
[[Barkshire Tragedy, The]]


Beautiful Damsel, The
[[Beautiful Damsel, The]]


Bedlam City
[[Bedlam City]]


Bristol City
[[Bristol City]]






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


Cheerful Arn, The
[[Cheerful Arn, The]]


Cheshire Man, The
[[Cheshire Man, The]]


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


Cold Blows the Wind
[[Cold Blows the Wind]]


Come all you lads and lasses
[[Come all you lads and lasses]]


Come, all you jolly ploughmen
[[Come, all you jolly ploughmen]]


Come, Deavie, I'll tell thee a secret
[[Come, Deavie, I'll tell thee a secret]]


Come, I will sing to you
[[Come, I will sing to you]]


Come listen awhile unto my song
[[Come listen awhile unto my song]]


Crocodile,The
[[Crocodile,The]]






Derby Ram, The
[[Derby Ram, The]]


Dives and Lazarus
[[Dives and Lazarus]]


Down by the side of Bedlam City
[[Down by the side of Bedlam City]]






Easter Day was a holiday
[[Easter Day was a holiday]]


Faithful Emma
[[Faithful Emma]]


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


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


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


Feast Song
[[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 Gravel
 
Green Grow the Rushes Oh!


Ground for the Floor
[[Green Bushes,The]]


[[Green Gravel]]


[[Green Grow the Rushes Oh!]]


Harvest Song
[[Ground for the Floor]]


Here come three dukes


Here's a health to the jolly blacksmith


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


Here's a health unto the mistress
[[Here come three dukes]]


Here's two or three jolly lads
[[Here's a health to the jolly blacksmith]]


Here we come a-wassailing
[[Here's a health unto our master]]


Hold up thy hand, most righteous judge
[[Here's a health unto the mistress]]


Ho! yonder stands a charming creature
[[Here's two or three jolly lads]]


[[Here we come a-wassailing]]


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


I been a-rambling all this night
[[Ho! yonder stands a charming creature]]


I cannot get to my love


I'll spread the greeen branches


I'll tell you of a fellow
[[I been a-rambling all this night]]


I'll weave my love a garland
[[I cannot get to my love]]


I'm a man that's done wrong to my parents
[[I'll spread the greeen branches]]


In Bethlehem City
[[I'll tell you of a fellow]]


In Thorney woods in Nottinghamshire
[[I'll weave my love a garland]]


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


Is any of you going to Scarborough fair?
[[In Bethlehem City]]


I sowed the seeds of love
[[In Thorney woods in Nottinghamshire]]


It's of a farmer's daughter
[[I once loved a boy]]


It was one summer's morning
[[Is any of you going to Scarborough fair?]]


Ive lived in a wood for a number of years
[[I sowed the seeds of love]]


I will give you the Keys of Heaven
[[It's of a farmer's daughter]]


[[It was one summer's morning]]


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


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


Jolly Ploughboy, The




King Arthur had three sons
[[John Appleby]]


[[Jolly Ploughboy, The]]


Lavender cries
[[King Arthur had three sons]]


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]]


[[Lurg geurey gy niaghtey]]


May-Day carols
[[May-Day carols]]


[[Me mither mend't me auld breek]]
[[Me mither mend't me auld breek]]


Mistress's health, The
[[Mistress's health, The]]
 
My bonnie,bonnie boy
 
My Johnny was a shoemaker


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]]


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


Oats and Beans
[[Ny Kirree Fo-Sniaghtey]]


Of all the horses in the merry greenwood
[[Oats and Beans]]


O father, father, come build me a boat
[[Of all the horses in the merry greenwood]]


"Oh hangman, hold thy hand" he cried
[[O father, father, come build me a boat]]


Old Tup, The
[["Oh hangman, hold thy hand" he cried]]


Oliver Cromwell lay buried and dead
[[Old Tup, The]]


O Mylechrane
[[Oliver Cromwell lay buried and dead]]


One Morning in May
[[O Mylechrane]]


One very keen winter
[[One Morning in May]]


One Zunday Morn
[[One very keen winter]]


Our Mistress's health we now begin
[[One Zunday Morn]]


Our sheep-shearing done
[[Our Mistress's health we now begin]]


Our sheep-shear is over
[[Our sheep-shearing done]]


Outlandish Knight,The
[[Our sheep-shear is over]]


O Vylecharane
[[Outlandish Knight,The]]


[[O Vylecharane]]




Painful (or Faithful) Plough, The


Peace-Egging Songs
[[Painful (or Faithful) Plough, The]]


Poor Mary is weeping
[[Peace-Egging Songs]]


Prickly Bush,The
[[Poor Mary is weeping]]


[[Prickly Bush,The]]


Reaphook and Sickle, The
[[Reaphook and Sickle, The]]


[[Robbie Tamson's Smiddie]]
[[Robbie Tamson's Smiddie]]


Robin-a-Thrush
[[Robin-a-Thrush]]


Robin he married a wife in the west
[[Robin he married a wife in the west]]






Sally Gray
[[Sally Gray]]


Scarborough Fair
[[Scarborough Fair]]


Seasons of the Year, The
[[Seasons of the Year, The]]


Seeds of Love, The
[[Seeds of Love, The]]


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


Sheepcrook and Blackdog
[[Sheepcrook and Blackdog]]


Sheep-shearing songs
[[Sheep-shearing songs]]


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


Souling Song, The
[[Souling Song, The]]


Spier, The
[[Spier, The]]


Sprig of Thyme, The
[[Sprig of Thyme, The]]


Stratton Church Chimes
[[Stratton Church Chimes]]


Sweet Nightingale, The
[[Sweet Nightingale, The]]


Sweet William
[[Sweet William]]


Sword Dance Song
[[Sword Dance Song]]






The Cheerful Arn
[[The Cheerful Arn]]


The day was gone
[[The day was gone]]


The lambs they skip with pleasure
[[The lambs they skip with pleasure]]


The Moon shines Bright
[[The Moon shines Bright]]


[[There was a Lady in the West]]
[[There was a Lady in the West]]


There was a Pig went out to dig
[[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 was a ship from the north country]]


There were two loving brothers
[[There was a tree, and a very fine tree]]


The sun it goes down
[[There were three sisters fair and bright]]


The sun went down beyond yon hill
[[There were two loving brothers]]


Three Dukes, The
[[The sun it goes down]]


Thresher and the Squire, The
[[The sun went down beyond yon hill]]


'Tis of a bold thresherman
[[Three Dukes, The]]


'Tis of a fair damsel
[[Thresher and the Squire, The]]


'Tis young men and maidens all
[['Tis of a bold thresherman]]


Tree in the Valley, The
[['Tis of a fair damsel]]


Tripping up the Green Grass
[['Tis young men and maidens all]]


Turmut-hoeing
[[Tree in the Valley, The]]


Twankydillo
[[Tripping up the Green Grass]]


'Twas on a jolly summer's morn
[[Turmut-hoeing]]


Twelve Apostles, The
[[Twankydillo]]


Twenty, Eighteen
[['Twas on a jolly summer's morn]]


[[Twelve Apostles, The]]


[[Twenty, Eighteen]]


Undaunted Female, The




[[Undaunted Female, The]]


Venus and Adonis




Wassail Bough, The
[[Venus and Adonis]]


[[Water of Tyne, The]]
[[Wassail Bough, The]]


Well met my brother friend
[[Water of Tyne, The]]]]


We shepherds are the best of men
[[Well met my brother friend]]


Will you buy my sweet lavender?
[[We Shepherds are the Best of Men]]


[[Will you buy my sweet lavender?]]




Young Herchard


You noble spectators
[[Young Herchard]]


[[You noble spectators]]




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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.

Revision as of 13:16, 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)




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)