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  • Cecil Sharp's Note 96 (1916)
    ...“Three French Hens,” and, as this is the usual reading in printed copies, I have so given it in the text. “Britten Chains” may be a corruption of “Brét ...the Nativity''), the first gift is “a partridge on a pear tree,” and this I have heard several times in country villages. One singer who gave it to me ...
    3 KB (554 words) - 23:30, 19 November 2018
  • Cecil Sharp's Note 63 (1916)
    This is a very popular song in the West of England, but it has not, I believe, been found elsewhere. Similar words are in Sam Lover’s ''Rory O’Mo ...
    588 bytes (108 words) - 20:53, 19 November 2018
  • Scan Tester
    ...ee Reg Hall’s wonderful book ''[[I Never Played to Many Posh Dances (book)|I Never Played to Many Posh Dances]]'' published by Musical Traditions, 1990. ...as an expanded and remastered CD'' - [http://www.topicrecords.co.uk/?p=832 I Never Played to Many Posh Dances] TSCD581D ''Transcriptions in ABC Notatio ...
    5 KB (801 words) - 22:00, 16 February 2022
  • Cecil Sharp's Note 09 (1916)
    ...ngs and Carols'' (p. 32); and ''Journal of the Folk-Song Society'' (volume i, p. 164; volume ii, pp. 27 and 208; volume iii, p. 191). Buchan (''Ancient Ballads and Songs'', volume i, p. 133) prints a version, “Gight’s Lady,” and suggests that the ballad “re ...
    2 KB (304 words) - 20:15, 19 October 2018
  • Cecil Sharp's Note 27 (1916)
    ...ad Airs of Scotland'' and the ''Journal of the Folk-Song Society'' (volume i, p. 212; volume ii, p. 111; volume v, pp. 81–84). The ballad given here was ...
    679 bytes (108 words) - 21:21, 30 October 2018
  • Cecil Sharp's Note 88 (1916)
    This is the only version of this song that I know. The singer mixed his words in all the verses except the first one, ne ...
    636 bytes (107 words) - 23:01, 19 November 2018
  • GB-6a-6.abc
    T:As I Roamed Out Version 2 of 2<br> Q:Slower (i.e. than GB/6a/5)<br> ...
    363 bytes (95 words) - 21:01, 30 November 2010
  • Cecil Sharp's Note 61 (1916)
    No. 61. I’m Seventeen come Sunday ...r versions are printed in the ''Journal of the Folk-Song Society'' (volume i, p. 92; volume ii, pp. 9 and 269); Songs of the West (No. 73, 2d ed.); and ...
    606 bytes (100 words) - 20:46, 19 November 2018
  • Cecil Sharp's Note 28 (1916)
    ...e always spoken and never sung. This is the only instance of the kind that I have come across (see ''English Folk Song: Some Conclusions'', p. 6). ...
    713 bytes (110 words) - 21:23, 30 October 2018
  • Hartlake Bridge
    [[MTCD320 Here's Luck to a Man]] and [[A Story I'm Just About to Tell|Voice of the People Volume 8]] ...event. Although I had been told by older Gypsies that other verses exist, I was never able to find a complete version of the song. MacColl and Seeger ...
    3 KB (550 words) - 09:48, 30 September 2012
  • Harry Baker
    ...sk him to repeat the tune of "Death and the Lady" a number of times before I was certain of having it down correctly." ...
    2 KB (298 words) - 19:39, 7 April 2024
  • Cecil Sharp's Note 56 (1916)
    ...ety'' (volume ii, p. 25); ''Journal of the Irish Folk-Song Society'' (Part I, p. 10); and ''Folk Songs from Dorset'' (No. 6). ...
    655 bytes (111 words) - 22:14, 18 November 2018
  • Cecil Sharp's Note 05 (1916)
    The tune is in the Æolian mode. I have noted no less than eighteen variants. ...
    704 bytes (111 words) - 11:41, 25 June 2020
  • Cecil Sharp's Note 85 (1916)
    ...versions with tunes, see the ''Journal of the Folk-Song Society'' (volume i, pp. 75 and 260; volume ii, p. 263); Miss Mason's ''Nursery Rhymes and Coun ...
    669 bytes (107 words) - 12:47, 10 January 2019
  • HAM-05-32-17.abc
    T:As I was a wlking by Newgates one day<br> W:"As I was a walking by Newgates one day" see p. 43.<br> ...
    2 KB (522 words) - 16:15, 21 November 2010
  • GILES,William Henry MS
    ...umbers continue on each right-hand page. These numbers seem consistent, so I cite them in the ABC file. There is no date associated with the Pether inscription, and I have not established any connection between the Pether/Shaylor family and t ...
    6 KB (964 words) - 17:17, 23 April 2013
  • English County Songs
    [[As I rode over yonder forest green]] [[As I sat on a Sunny Bank]] ...
    8 KB (1,148 words) - 21:27, 26 October 2009
  • GB-6a-5.abc
    T:GB/6a/5 As I Roved Out Version 1 of 2<br> ...
    449 bytes (113 words) - 21:00, 30 November 2010
  • 117: A Gest of Robyn Hode
    ...some portions of the story may have been of the compiler's own invention.' I would suggest that this last proposal is highly likely. The ballad does not ...
    822 bytes (147 words) - 16:11, 9 September 2009
  • John Moore of Tyneside Ms
    * I Lie Wee My Mammy Nee Mair * I'll Gang Nae Mair to Yon Town ...
    3 KB (406 words) - 10:17, 14 October 2013
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