Shadrack Hayden

Shadrack Hayden - perhaps better known as Shepherd Hayden - singer. Born at Lyford, Berkshire in 1826, he shepherded at Hatford near Farringdon before moving to Bampton, Oxfordshire in 1891. He was living in Bampton when Cecil Sharp collected songs from him, towards the end of his life, in 1909, 1910 and 1914.

Songs collected

Adieu my lovely Nancy
As I walked through the meadows
Brisk young bachelor
Daughter in the dungeon
Erin's lovely home
Farmer and tinker
Greenland fishery
John Barleycorn
Lord Bateman
Lost lady found
Nancy Whisky
O once I was a shepherd's boy
Rosemary lane
Sailor cut down in his prime
Simple ploughboy
St. James's hospital
The brisk young bachelor
The cobbler and the butcher
The constant farmer's son
The Crimea
The croppy boy
The dirty beggarman
The gypsy laddie
The hearty poacher
The little dun mare
The ploughboy's courtship
The rambling sailor
The Royal George
The sailor and the soldier
The simple ploughboy
The soldier and the sailor
The three butchers
The young girl cut down in her prime
Thorneymoor woods
Three jolly butchers
Two jolly butchers
Wraggle taggle gipsies
You bachelors you know