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Acknowledgements and clarifications.
This transcription work, although carried out by us, Lewis Jones and Simon Furey, would not have been possible without the help and encouragement of the Traditional Song Forum, and Martin Graebe, Steve Gardham and Paul Davenport in particular. We also relied at times on the prior published work done by Roy Palmer and Alan Helsdon to resolve some of the difficulties we encountered in interpreting the Vaughan Williams manuscripts. We acknowledge their efforts with grateful thanks.
At the same time, we wish to point out that our work differs from those of Roy and Alan in that our aim was not to produce transcriptions as performance-ready pieces. Instead, we have tried to include all of the musical variations which Vaughan Williams notated; we leave the assembly of each individual piece to the choice of the performer, who may be assured that we have omitted nothing of the music in the original manuscripts.
RVW2/3/2 Forty Miles
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RVW2/3/3 There Was An Old Man (Green Broom)
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RVW2/3/4 Young William
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RVW2/3/5 The Miller And His Three Sons
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RVW2/3/6 A Yacre Of Land
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RVW2/3/7 In Fylingdale's Parish
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RVW2/3/8 Billy O'Rooke
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RVW2/3/9 I Married A Wife
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RVW2/3/10i The Farmer's Boy (i)
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RVW2/3/10ii The Farmer's Boy (ii)
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RVW2/3/11 A Brisk Young Farmer
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RVW2/3/13 Careless Solly Reel
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RVW2/3/14 Hornpipe [Manchester Hornpipe?]
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RVW2/3/15 Butter'd Peas
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RVW2/3/16 The Devil's Dream
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RVW2/3/17 Tarry Woo'
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RVW2/3/20 Erin's Lovely Home
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RVW2/3/21 William And Phillis
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RVW2/3/23 The Farmer's Daughter
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RVW2/3/25 In Jessie's City
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RVW2/3/26 Come All You Jolly Ploughmen
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RVW2/3/27 Golden Glove
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RVW2/3/28 Horn Fair
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RVW2/3/29 As I Was Walking (Handfuls Of Roses)
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RVW2/3/30 The Week Before Easter
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RVW2/3/31 Maria Martin
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RVW2/3/32 Salisbury Plain
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RVW2/3/33 William And Sally
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RVW2/3/34 The Ship's Carpenter
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RVW2/3/35 The Trees They Do Grow High
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RVW2/3/36 Adieu To Lovely Nancy
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RVW2/3/37 John Reilly
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RVW2/3/38 Orange And Blue
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RVW2/3/39 Robin Hood And The Pedlar
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RVW2/3/40 Foggy Dew
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RVW2/3/41 Cupid's Garden
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RVW2/2/3/42 Spencer The Rover
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RVW2/3/43 Tom Block
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RVW2/3/44 [Wraggle Taggle] ?
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RVW2/3/46 Georgie
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RVW2/3/47 Lord Bateman
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RVW2/3/48 It Was One Morning
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RVW2/3/49 Bold Carter
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RVW2/3/50 The Foxhunt
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RVW2/3/52 Trip To The Cottage
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RVW2/3/53 Gipsies In The Wood
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RVW2/3/54 Low Backed Car [Cow]
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RVW2/3/55 Ladies' Triumph
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RVW2/3/56 Lord Lovel
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RVW2/3/57 The Red Barn
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RVW2/3/58 The Streams Of Lovely Nancy
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RVW2/3/59 As I Was A Walking
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RVW2/3/60 Green Bushes
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RVW2/3/61 Lincolnshire Farmer [Yorkshire Bite]
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RVW2/3/62 Young Jockey
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RVW2/3/63 Deeds Of Napoleon
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RVW2/3/64 The Prentice Boy (Captain's Apprentice)
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RVW2/3/65 Ward The Pirate
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RVW2/3/66 As I Was A-walking One Midsummer Morning
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RVW2/3/67 The Dragoon And The Lady
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RVW2/3/68 The Yorkshire Farmer
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RVW2/3/69 John Reilly
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RVW2/3/70 Basket Of Eggs
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RVW2/3/71 Van Dieman's Land [Young Henry The Poacher]
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RVW2/3/72 Erin's Lovely Home
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RVW2/3/73 Sheffield Apprentice
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RVW2/3/75 Dream Of Napoleon
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RVW2/3/76 On Board A '98
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RVW2/3/77 Napoleon's Farewell
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RVW2/3/78 Come People All [Spurn Point]
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RVW2/3/79 Princess Royal
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RVW2/3/80 Loss Of The Ramillies
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RVW2/3/81 Erin's Lovely Home
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RVW2/3/82 Raven's Feather
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RVW2/3/83 Creeping Jane
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RVW2/3/84 The Irish Girl
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RVW2/3/85 It's Of An Old Lord
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RVW2/3/86 Hares In The Plantation
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RVW2/3/87 Hills Of Caledonia (John Raeburn)
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RVW2/3/88 Three Jolly Butchers
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RVW2/3/89 The Cumberland's Crew
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RVW2/3/90 The Robin's Petition
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RVW2/3/91 The Maid Of Australia
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RVW2/3/92 Spanish Ladies
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RVW2/3/93 Paul Jones or, the American Frigate
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RVW2/3/94 Fair Flora
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RVW2/3/95 Just As The Tide Was Flowing
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RVW2/3/96 Oxford City
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RVW2/3/97 Poor Mary
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RVW2/3/98 Captain Markee
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RVW2/3/99 Edward Gayen
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RVW2/3/100 Ratcliffe Highway
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RVW2/3/101 Our Anchors Weighed (Liverpool Docks)
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RVW2/3/102 The Sheffield Apprentice
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RVW2/3/103 The Bold Robber
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RVW2/3/104 A Bold Young Soldier
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RVW2/3/105 The Nobleman And The Thresherman
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RVW2/3/106 As I Was A-Walking Down By The Black Hospital
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RVW2/3/107 The Blacksmith
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RVW2/3/108 Barbary Allen
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RVW2/3/109 The Farmer's Daughter
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RVW2/3/110 It's Of A Shopkeeper
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RVW2/3/111 I Went To Betsy
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RVW2/3/112 The Three Butchers
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RVW2/3/113 Come Nancy Will You Marry Me?
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RVW2/3/114 Near Scarborough Town
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RVW2/3/115 My Bonny Boy
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RVW2/3/116 Betsy And William
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RVW2/3/117 Bold Princess Royal
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RVW2/3/118 Hills of Caledonia
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RVW2/3/119 Pat Reilly
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RVW2/3/120 Glencoe
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RVW2/3/121 The Convict
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RVW2/3/122 Spanish Ladies
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RVW2/3/123 Come All You Young Sailors
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RVW2/3/124 Come All You Gallant Poachers
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RVW2/3/125 Banks of Claudy
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RVW2/3/126 Bold Princess Royal
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RVW2/3/127 Young Indian Lass
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RVW2/3/128 The Golden Glove
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RVW2/3/129 Joseph And His Wedded WifeFull English Transcription Programme: The Vaughan Williams Archive at the British Library, MS RVW2/3 Continued
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