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• Cecil Sharp's Note 11 (1916)
  ...s book has been compiled. As a rule the versions vary but little, although I have heard only one singer sing the seventh and eighth stanzas of the text. ...gives a second version of the ballad entitled “The Gowans sae Gay” (volume i, p. 22). In the latter, the hero appears as an elf-knight, and the catastro
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• Cecil Sharp's Note 30 (1916)
  ...s with tunes are given in the ''Journal of the Folk-Song Society'' (volume i, p. 130; volume ii, pp. 99 and 298); and in Joyce’s ''Ancient Irish Music
  409 bytes (67 words) - 21:29, 30 October 2018
• Cecil J. Sharp and Charles L. Marson (1904) ''Folk Songs From Somerset Volume 2''
  29. I'm Seventeen come Sunday<br> 47. As I walked through the Meadows<br>
  1 KB (213 words) - 00:32, 13 April 2022
• Cecil Sharp's Note 76 (1916)
  ...65), and also of “Bibberly Town” (''Songs of the West'', No. 110, 2d ed.). I have only one other variant of this, from which, however, some of the lines
  441 bytes (77 words) - 21:59, 19 November 2018
• HAM-05-32-21.abc
  W:For I never had but one true love & he was killed at sea<br> W:I'll buy me love a fine ship & a fine ship will I<br>
  2 KB (371 words) - 16:26, 21 November 2010
• MTCD333 The Birds Upon the Tree
  ''[[I'll Sing of Martha]]'', [[Freda Palmer]], [[Roud 10560/2467]]<BR> ''[[When I Was a Boy]]'', [[George Fradley]], [[Roud 18305]]<BR>
  2 KB (287 words) - 07:22, 12 May 2024
• Cecil Sharp's Note 67 (1916)
  ...extension of the preceding song in which a third character is introduced. I have taken down four other versions, one of which is printed in the ''Journ
  498 bytes (87 words) - 21:05, 19 November 2018
• Take 6 Transcription Programme: The Collinson Archive, Vol 1
  '''COL/1/3 I drew my ship unto a harbour'''
  658 bytes (90 words) - 10:13, 30 January 2011
• Ambrose Cooper
  ...that’s a violin.’ But it got me interested in music. When I got old enough I got myself a guitar and used to listen to old Jimmie Rodgers’ records and :''“People take my stuff and say they’ve done it. I can’t read and write, so I’ve made a song up on a tape, played it to somebody and they’ve written
  3 KB (608 words) - 09:37, 10 October 2023
• Walter Bulwer
  ...d Edna Wortley. (Two tracks also available on Veteran cassettes: I Thought I Was the Only One: Dulcimer Players From England Veteran VTVS07/08'' * Scan Tester: I Never Played to Many Posh Dances, Topic LPs 12TS455/6 and Veteran cassettes
  2 KB (372 words) - 19:25, 26 February 2022
• Cecil Sharp's Note 01 (1916)
  ...(No. 53, 2d ed.); and in the ''Journal of the Folk-Song Society'' (volume i, p. 162). ...that the Percy version is the ballad “as recomposed in the reign of James I, when there was a perfect rage for re-writing the old historical ballads.�
  3 KB (499 words) - 19:16, 19 October 2018
• Cecil Sharp's Note (1916)
  ...(No. 53, 2d ed.); and in the ''Journal of the Folk-Song Society'' (volume i, p. 162). ...that the Percy version is the ballad “as recomposed in the reign of James I, when there was a perfect rage for re-writing the old historical ballads.�
  3 KB (499 words) - 19:04, 19 October 2018
• Cecil Sharp's Note 12 (1916)
  ...llected in Devonshire, is published in ''English Folk Songs for Schools''. I have collected only one other version, the first stanza of which runs thus: To the six verses which the singer sang to me I have added three others; two from the Devon version (with Mr. Baring-Gould�
  2 KB (296 words) - 20:43, 19 October 2018
• HAM-05-32-20.abc
  W:I am going to milk my father's cows down by the sheermount<br> W:In walking along by the side of her I stole a milking Kiss<br>
  4 KB (892 words) - 02:24, 15 December 2010
• HAM-05-32-23.abc
  T:As I was a-riding<br> T:As I Was A-Riding<br>
  2 KB (400 words) - 16:34, 21 November 2010
• 88 Bold Nelson's Praise
  I:linebreak $<br> w: Bold|Nel- son's praise I'm|go\- ing to sing,|(Not forg- gett\- ing our|glor- ious King), He|al- ways
  3 KB (661 words) - 17:55, 19 November 2018
• HAM-05-32-02.abc
  W:Your voice so loud I hear you there,<br> W:Oh! why may I go and court another,<br>
  2 KB (378 words) - 15:08, 21 November 2010
• Cecil Sharp's Note 16 (1916)
  The words of this ballad were sung to me to a very poor tune. I have, therefore, taken the liberty of mating them to a fine air which was s ...ause, you see, he had told his true-love to dress in green also;” and when I further inquired why he told her to do this, he said, “Because, of course
  3 KB (451 words) - 21:17, 19 October 2018
• Billy Bennington
  * Various artists, ''I Thought I Was The Only One'', Veteran VTVS07/08 - 10 tracks
  2 KB (288 words) - 12:46, 15 February 2022
• Alice Harden
  [[As I sat on a sunny bank]]
  585 bytes (82 words) - 11:07, 7 June 2021

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