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* [[If I was a Blackbird]] * [[I've Been a Wild Boy]] ...

I have a large number of variants of this song, which used to be in great req ...

...versions with tunes, see the ''Journal of the Folk-Song Society'' (volume i, p. 214; volume ii, pp. 44, 95, 206, and 274); ''Songs of the West'' (No. 4 ...

...d tunes at the commencement, and at the end, of the acts of early dramas. “I cannot eat” has been called “the first drinking-song of any merit in our la ...the work of a literary man than are the verses—apart from the refrain—of “I cannot eat.” ...

'''LEB/2/68/3 I Courted A Bonny Lass''' ...

I have taken down fifteen different versions of this song, but the tune given ...

...nate most pub sing-songs ...  much to the annoyance of other singers, I gather.’ This was so marked that Brian only heard his son [[Ron Spicer]] si ...12T235), 1974, and could be heard on tracks of several others: he sang ''I Wish there was no Prisons'' on the EP ''Four Sussex Singers'' (Collector LEB 7), ...

W:"I will name it" said she "I will name it for his sake<br> ...

...me Christian name holding the shop, or from the retention of the old name, I am unable to say, but John Johnson for the second time remains on the impri ...e number 10, Cheapside, though there is no mention of the Harp and Crown ; I cannot trace any of her issues later than 1771. F.Kidson</blockquote> ...

...ole Bay.” In both the other versions above cited, and in another one which I have published (''Folk Songs from Various Counties'', No. 8), the scene is ...

...alone.<br />You'd better take your sister to go along with you,<br />Then I have no objection, dear daughter, you may go." <br /><br /> ...ar Caroline, your blood my hands have stained.<br />No more on earth shall I see you ,but in heaven we'll meet again." <br /><br /> ...

...Maidens a-Milking Did Go]] "I learnt that off an old man, old Billy King. I gave him a pint of beer. And you got it for nothing - 4d, that was a lot of ...worked for most of his life at a near-by stone quarry and I am sorry that I only managed to see him on one occasion.' ...

T:One Night As I Lay On My Bed<br> T:One Night As I Lay On My Bed<br> ...

W:Oh! master, I should wonder much at you<br> W:Oh! Master, I wont trust you nor love you<br> ...

...' (volume iii, p. 277); ''Journal of the Welsh Folk-Song Society'' (volume i, p. 40); and ''Folk-Songs from Somerset'' (No. 93). ...

* ''Banbury Hill'' - First I'm Going To Sing You A Ditty (Rural Fun & Frolics) ‎(CD, Album, Comp) Topic ...

...can do little more than guess at their original meaning. The variants that I have recovered in Somerset are as follows: Who knoweth one? I, saith Israel, know one: One is God, who is over heaven and earth. <br> ...

...f music (''Ed. See PDFs'') are a complete copy of a manuscript book, which I was given by my late uncle Mr Joe Evans of Bromstead near Newport, Shropshi ...e been uncommon at the time and indicates the level of his musical talent. I have been told that he played the piccolo and may have also played the flut ...

...Acre, as musical instrument maker, and possibly as music publisher, though I have as yet found no music bearing this address on the imprint. In 1776, he Other more important works were Bunting's " Ancient Irish Music," vol. i (1796)-the original publication, freely pirated by Irish music printers. "T ...

'''[[53a As I walked through the meadows. (''First Version'')]]''' '''[[53b As I walked through the meadows. (''Second Version'')]]''' ...