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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.
RVW2/3/130 Our Saviour Tarried Out
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RVW2/3/131 Lord Thomas
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RVW2/3/132 Come All You Worthy People
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RVW2/3/133 Duke William
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RVW2/3/134 The North Fleet
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RVW2/3/135 The Eighteenth Day of June
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RVW2/3/136 County Tyrone
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RVW2/3/137 That Landlady Had A Daughter
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RVW2/3/138 Come All You Freemasons
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RVW2/3/139 Fanny Blair
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RVW2/3/140 Basket of Eggs
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RVW2/3/141 It Was One Winter's Evening
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RVW2/3/142 Captain Ward
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RVW2/3/143 The Gown Of Green
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RVW2/3/144 The Royal George
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RVW2/3/145 The Trees They Do Grow
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RVW2/3/146 Lord Allenwater
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RVW2/3/147 [Unknown]
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RVW2/3/148 The Green Bushes
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RVW2/3/149 Geordie
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RVW2/3/151 Come All You Young Ploughmen
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RVW2/3/152 Young Collins
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RVW2/3/153 Blackberry Fold
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RVW2/3/156 Cold Blows the Wind
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RVW2/3/157 Pretty Betsy
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RVW2/3/158 The Ship's Carpenter
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RVW2/3/159 Young Edwin
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RVW2/3/160 The Bailiff's Daughter
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RVW2/3/162 Come All You Worthy Christians
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RVW2/3/163 The Long Whip
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RVW2/3/164 Come All You Jolly Ploughmen
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RVW2/3/165 Painful Plough
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RVW2/3/166 Down By Some River
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RVW2/3/167 Merchant's Daughter
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RVW2/3/168 The Americans
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RVW2/3/169 High Germany
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RVW2/3/170 'Twas Over Hills and Scraggy Rocks
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RVW2/3/171 Our Captain Calls
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RVW2/3/172 The Old Miser
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RVW2/3/173 The Beggarman
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RVW2/3/174 Sixteen Come Sunday
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RVW2/3/175 The Four Maries
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RVW2/3/176 The Beggarman
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RVW2/3/177 Hornpipe
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RVW2/3/178 Hornpipe [Barley Mow]
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RVW2/3/179 The Lass O' Glenshee
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RVW2/3/180 The Bonny Banks O' Coquet
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RVW2/3/181 Come All. Come Crippled. Come Lame
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RVW2/3/182 The Bonny House of Airlie
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RVW2/3/183 Over The Hills
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RVW2/3/184 Lullaby
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RVW2/3/185 Psalm Tune (Psalm 23 Metrical)
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RVW2/3/186 Willie Foster
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RVW2/3/187 My Coffin Shall Be Black
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RVW2/3/188 Here Stands A Lady On The Mountain
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RVW2/3/189 Roman Soldiers
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RVW2/3/190 Sheffield Apprentice
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RVW2/3/191 The Keeper
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RVW2/3/192 God Rest You
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RVW2/3/193 Abroad As I Was Walking
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RVW2/3/194 The Rosemary Lane
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RVW2/3/195 John Barleycorn
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RVW2/3/196 The Lousy Tailor
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RVW2/3/197 The Lost Lady
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RVW2/3/198 The Little Lowland Maid
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RVW2/3/199 Georgie
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RVW2/3/200 Cold Winter's Night
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RVW2/3/201 Irish Molly
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RVW2/3/202 Maria Martin and Van Dieman's Land
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RVW2/3/205 Murder of Mountnesson
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RVW2/3/206 William and Mary
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RVW2/3/207 The Little Dun Mare
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RVW2/3/208 Dick Turpin
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RVW2/3/209 Come All You Merry Sportsmen
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RVW2/3/210 Cold Blow The Winds
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RVW2/3/211 Robin Hood
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RVW2/3/212 The Little Tom [Town] Boy
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RVW2/3/213 Orton Town
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RVW2/3/214 The Gown of Green
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RVW2/3/215 The Rambling Sailor
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RVW2/3/216 Basket Of Eggs
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RVW2/3/217 What Hurricane Wind
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RVW2/3/218 Green Broom
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RVW2/3/219 [Unknown]
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RVW2/3/220 Pull The String
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RVW2/3/221 Henry Martin
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RVW2/3/222 The Miller of Dee
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RVW2/3/223 The Turtle Dove
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RVW2/3/224 Seventeen Come Sunday
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RVW2/3/225 The Trees They Do Grow High
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RVW2/3/226 Plains of Waterloo
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RVW2/3/227 The Cobbler
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RVW2/3/228 As I Walked Out
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RVW2/3/229 Bleckel Murry Neet
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RVW2/3/230 King Roger
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RVW2/3/231 Barberry Bell
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RVW2/3/232 A Wife For Willy
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RVW2/3/233 Rossler(?) Fair
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RVW2/3/234 Geordie Gair [Fair?]
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RVW2/3/235 Rob Lowry
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RVW2/3/236 Bobbing Around
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RVW2/3/237 The Gay Ploughboy
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RVW2/3/238 As I Walked Out
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RVW2/3/239 Twankidillo
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RVW2/3/240 Lord Bateman
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RVW2/3/241 The Fourteenth of February
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RVW2/3/242 Kilkenny
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RVW2/3/243 Three Butchers
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RVW2/3/244 Spanish Ladies
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RVW2/3/245 Bold Robber
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RVW2/3/246 A Sailor Was Riding Along
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RVW2/3/247 Heave Away
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RVW2/3/248 Shenandoah
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RVW2/3/249 Erin's Lovely Home
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RVW2/3/250 Golden Glove
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RVW2/3/251 Jogging Along
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RVW2/3/252 Golden Vanity
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RVW2/3/253 A Sailor's Life
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RVW2/3/254 Clear Away The Morning Dew
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RVW2/3/255 Green Mossy Banks
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RVW2/3/256 Seasons Of The Year
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RVW2/3/257 Seventeen Come Sunday
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RVW2/3/258 Rambling Sailor
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