Sweet Sussex
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The full text and contents of Sweet Sussex, a folk song booklet that contains modern transcriptions of the songs first published by John Broadwood in the 1840s, is available at http://imslp.org/wiki/Sweet_Sussex_%28Broadwood,_John%29. The pages and sheet music of the booklet are also replicated below, together with MIDI files of the tunes.
Sweet Sussex: Front Cover
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Sweet Sussex: Frontispiece
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Sweet Sussex: Verso
Sweet Sussex: Creative Commons Licence
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Sweet Sussex: Introduction
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Sweet Sussex: Notes for Singers and Accompanyists
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Sweet Sussex: Part One--John Broadwood 1843
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Sweet Sussex: Song No. 1 The Moon Shines Bright
Sweet Sussex: Song No. 2 A Wassail, A Wassail
Sweet Sussex: Song No. 3 The Noble Lord
Sweet Sussex: Song No. 4 Rosebuds in June
Sweet Sussex: Song No. 5 A Sweet Country Life
Sweet Sussex: Song No. 6 The Ploughboy
Sweet Sussex: Song No. 7 The Privateer
Sweet Sussex: Song No. 8 The Fourteenth of July
Sweet Sussex: Song No. 9 Gipsy Song
Sweet Sussex: Song No. 10 The Husbandman
Sweet Sussex: Song No. 11 The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington
Sweet Sussex: Song No. 12 The Poacher's Song
Sweet Sussex: Song No. 13 In Lancashire
Sweet Sussex: Song No. 14 Come Listen
Sweet Sussex: Song No. 15 The Woodcutter [Harvest Supper Song]
Sweet Sussex: Song No. 16 Lord Bateman
Sweet Sussex: Part Two--Lucy Broadwood 1889
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Sweet Sussex: Song No. 17 Mummers'Carol
Sweet Sussex: Song No. 18 The Nobleman and the Thresherman
Sweet Sussex: Song No. 19 Bango [Harvest Supper Song]
Sweet Sussex: Song No. 20 Bold Reynard the Fox [Hunting Song]
Sweet Sussex: Song No. 21 Last Valentine's Day [Hunting Song]
Sweet Sussex: Song No. 22 The Sweet Rosy Morning [Hunting Song]
Sweet Sussex: Song No. 23 Bowl! Bowl! [Drinking Song]
Sweet Sussex: Song No. 24 I've been to France and ...Dover
Sweet Sussex: Song No. 25 He Swore He'd Drink Old England Dry
Sweet Sussex: Song No. 26 The Shepherd Boy
Sweet Sussex: Back Cover