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  • ...words have not been altered, although I have made use of all the sets that I have collected.
    244 bytes (47 words) - 21:38, 18 November 2018
  • ...five variants of this song, I do not know of any published version of it. I have had to amend some of the lines that were corrupt.
    189 bytes (35 words) - 22:06, 30 October 2018
  • ...er of the original song. The singer told me he learned it from his father. I have no doubt but that it is a genuine folksong. The tune is partly Mixolyd
    384 bytes (70 words) - 20:56, 19 November 2018
  • ...tional Ballad Airs'' (volume i, p. 248). The song is a very common one and I have noted several variants of it.
    279 bytes (45 words) - 21:49, 19 November 2018
  • Sheet Music (1916) [[Media:53a As I Walked Through the Meadows.pdf]] MIDI Sequence [[Media:53a As I Walked Through the Meadows First Verse.mid ]]
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  • Sheet Music (1916) [[Media:53b As I Walked Through the Meadows.pdf]] MIDI Sequence [[Media:53b As I Walked Through the Meadows First Verse.mid ]]
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  • ...by my trade, <br>And a waterman also<br>Through keeping of such company<br>I brought myself to woe.<br> ...and day,<br>To keep Ena fine and gay <br>And what I got I valued not, <br>I took to her straightway.<br>
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  • MIDI Sequence [[Media:61 I'm Seventeen Come Sunday First Verse.mid]] PDF [[Media:61 I'm Seventeen Come Sunday First Verse.pdf]]
    384 bytes (53 words) - 00:01, 7 May 2020
  • ...ve I been able to find it on ballad-sheets or in any published collection. I believe the tune to be a genuine folk-melody, though the sequence in the fi
    398 bytes (70 words) - 21:36, 30 October 2018
  • ...ongs from Sussex'' (No. 14). As the singer could give me but five stanzas, I have had to complete his song from a broadside in my possession (no imprint
    438 bytes (78 words) - 22:17, 18 November 2018
  • I have only one variant of this song, “Three-penny Street,” and so far as I know it has not been published elsewhere. Compare the tune, which is in the
    257 bytes (44 words) - 21:51, 19 November 2018
  • ...recently heard soldiers singing it on the march on more than one occasion, I am unable to give a reference to any published version of it.
    247 bytes (47 words) - 00:00, 20 November 2018
  • I do not know of any published versions of this song. I made use of the tune in Mr. Granville Barker's production of Hardy's ''Dyna
    206 bytes (37 words) - 22:51, 19 November 2018
  • From the man whom I Love, tho’ my Heart I disguise<br> I will freely discribe the Wretch I despise<br>
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  • ...from the singer of this song were very corrupt and almost unintelligible. I have therefore substituted lines taken from a Catnach broadside in my posse ...equently sang it. In ''English Folk Song: Some Conclusions'' (pp. 71, 72), I have expressed the opinion that in my experience English folksingers very r
    914 bytes (151 words) - 21:36, 18 November 2018
  • ...bling in the dew,” that “makes the milkmaids fair”—which I am told, though I have not been able to verify it, is the version given in Mother Goose’s '
    835 bytes (137 words) - 21:21, 18 November 2018
  • ...ard any one sing this song except the man who gave me this version. Nor do I know of any published form of it. The tune is in the Æolian mode. The word
    317 bytes (64 words) - 21:47, 18 November 2018
  • ...versions with words, see the ''Journal of the Folk-Song Society'' (volume i, p. 146; volume ii, pp. 37, 93, and 291; volume iii, pp. 111 and 290); ''En For words only, see Garret’s ''Newcastle Garlands'' (volumes i and ii), and Logan’s A Pedlar’s Pack of Ballads and Songs (pp. 172–18
    595 bytes (91 words) - 20:51, 18 November 2018
  • ...re almost exactly as they were sung to me. Taking words and tune together, I consider this to be a very perfect example of a folksong.
    364 bytes (69 words) - 21:41, 18 November 2018
  • ...a very popular street-song during the first half of the last century, and I suspect that it was during that period that the last stanza in the text was
    731 bytes (121 words) - 21:48, 19 November 2018
  • ...not know of any publication in which the tune of this ballad is published. I have collected six versions, but only one complete set of words, the one gi
    398 bytes (68 words) - 21:16, 30 October 2018
  • * [[I wish, I wish]] * [[I am a Maid that is deep in Love]]
    687 bytes (96 words) - 11:07, 18 September 2010
  • ...house in yonder Town,” in the ''Journal of the Folk-Song Society'' (volume i, p. 252; volume ii, pp. 155, 158, 159, and 168; volume iii, p. 188).
    391 bytes (65 words) - 23:20, 19 November 2018
  • ...ii, pp. 167 and 211); and the Journal of the Irish Folk-Song Society (Part I, p. 11).
    363 bytes (62 words) - 22:05, 18 November 2018
  • And for cheating poor lads like o I is their trades; When I was at home, why, I was her prattler,
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  • ...Percy’s Reliques'' (p. 98); ''Christie’s Traditional Ballad Airs'' (volume i, pp. 86–88); and Joyce’s ''Ancient Irish Music'' (p. 79). The well-know
    761 bytes (117 words) - 19:54, 19 October 2018
  • ...been wandering all this night<br />And part of the last night<br />So now I've come for to sing you a song<br />And to show you a branch of May<br /> #A branch of may I have brought you<br />And at your door it stands<br />It does spread out, a
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  • ...a Kentish side-road to avoid road works.&nbsp; Having seen some trailers, I stopped and asked about singers and was promptly sent to Chris’s door. ...the children’s chances in the world.&nbsp; It is hard to describe how sad I felt on hearing this story."
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  • ...versions with tunes, see the ''Journal of the Folk-Song Society'' (volume i, p. 138; volume v, pp. 132–135); and ''English County Songs'' (p. 110). I have always felt that there was something mystical about this song, and I was accordingly much interested to find that the same idea had independentl
    1 KB (225 words) - 21:14, 18 November 2018
  • ...and dubs it “a Somersetshire tune,” the original of ‘All round my hat.’ ” I believe it to be a genuine folk-air, which, as in other cases, formed the b
    462 bytes (82 words) - 22:30, 19 November 2018
  • I:linebreak $ w: A-|broad as I was|walk- ing one|morn- ing in the|Spring, I|heard a maid in|Bed\- * lam so *|sweet- ly she did|sing; Her *|
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  • ...regular, differing in that particular from all other forms of the air that I know. Barrett, in a footnote, states: “This song is usually sung without
    621 bytes (107 words) - 21:49, 18 November 2018
  • ...ible to distinguish them, both tunes and words. The ''Sprig of Thyme'' is, I imagine, the older of the two. Its tone is usually modal, very sad and inte ...he singer sang me, supplemented from those of other sets in my collection. I used the tune, which is in the Æolian mode, for the “Still music” in M
    1 KB (186 words) - 21:57, 30 October 2018
  • ...ork is never done,” reproduced in Ashton’s ''Century of Ballads'' (p. 20). I have collected several songs that harp on the same theme, two of which are ...example of the rollicking folk-air. As the singer’s words were incomplete, I have supplemented them with lines from my other versions.
    691 bytes (117 words) - 21:35, 19 November 2018
  • ...of the words with tunes, the ''Journal of the Folk-Song Society'' (volume i, p. 43; volume iii, pp. 74 and 304). ''⁠The last bonfire that I come to''<br>
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  • W:Nothing have I gainèd, but my own true love I've lost<br> W:I'll sing & I'll be merry, if occasion I do see<br>
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  • I:linebreak $ ...dear- est|Nan- cy, since *|I must now *|leave you Un- *|to the salt *|seas I * am *|bound for to|
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  • I did him slay, I did him kill, He gave me challenge, how could I it deny
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  • '''O once I was a shepherd boy''' ...n <br/><br/>With my fol de rol, O the riddle oddy O<br/>With my fol de rol i day<br/><br/>
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  • '''[[Phoebe Smith]], ''Once I Had a True Love''''', [[Topic Records]] 12T193 (LP), 1970. #[[Once I Had a True Love]]<br/>
    795 bytes (112 words) - 13:02, 25 January 2010
  • ===I===
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  • I:linebreak $<br> w: Fol the didd- le|de- ro,|Fol the didd- le|de ro, Sing|le- ro\- * i-|day.|<br>
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  • ...other versions with tunes see ''Journal of the Folk-Song Society'' (volume i, p. 169; volume ii, p. 137) ; ''Songs of the West'' (No. 99, 2d ed.); ''Eng ...' (1736). The words of this last version are on a broadside by Evans which I am fortunate enough to possess. It is ornamented with a curious old woodcut
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  • This is, I believe, the only copy of this ballad that has as yet been collected in Eng ...a novelty in this legendary ballad very amusing, and it must be very old. I never saw anything in print which had the smallest resemblance to it.” It
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  • W:Tis not my gold watch nor my money I value<br> W:Tis not my gold watch nor my money I crave<br>
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  • I:linebreak $<br> w: Come|all young * men of|learn- ing * good a *|warn\- * ing * take by|me, I'll *|have you quit * night *|<br>
    2 KB (493 words) - 17:53, 19 November 2018
  • ...Scottish ballad, “Waly, Waly, up the bank” (''Orpheus Caledonius''), that I have published them under the same title. A close variant is to be found in
    871 bytes (140 words) - 22:19, 30 October 2018
  • ...with tunes, for example, the ''Journal of the Folk-Song Society'' (volume i, p. 104; volume ii. p. 244); ''English County Songs'' (p. 182); ''Songs of The ballad is still freely sung by English folksingers, from whom I have noted down twelve different versions.
    978 bytes (155 words) - 20:58, 19 October 2018
  • ...e famous White Cliffs.&nbsp; "When I mentioned old songs, Jack asked me if I was from the BBC, adding that they had written to him in the ‘50s to say To begin with, Jack denied knowing any songs at all and it was only as I turned to leave that he said, “You mean those old historical songs...&nbs
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  • ...i, p. 255); and Christie’s ''Traditional Ballad Airs of Scotland'' (volume i, p. 134). The earliest printed copy of the ballad is of the time of James I.
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  • W:As I was going up through Glastonbury Street,<br> W:I lookèd high and I lookèd low,<br>
    2 KB (587 words) - 03:51, 23 November 2010
  • ...of Ballads'' (pp. 23–25); the ''Journal of the Folk-Song Society''(volume i, p. 97; volume iii, p. 307); and Dr. Joyce’s ''Ancient Irish Music'' (No. The words in the text are virtually as I took them down from the singer. The tune is partly Mixolydian. The word “
    950 bytes (158 words) - 21:04, 30 October 2018
  • This, of course, is clearly allied to the preceding song. I have collected only two other versions of it. The words of the first three
    244 bytes (45 words) - 20:55, 19 November 2018
  • W:Tis down by the river-side, a fair maid I espied<br> W:"What makes you sigh & cry, my fair pretty maid" said I.<br>
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  • ...mbault’s ''Music to Reliques of Ancient Poetry''. See also “Blow the winds I ho!” in Bell’s ''Ballads of the English Peasantry'', and “Blow away y ...d Songs'' (volume ii, p. 131). For other versions, see Child’s collection. I have secured thirteen variants, one of which was used as a Capstan Chantey.
    944 bytes (151 words) - 21:45, 19 October 2018
  • ...ording of May Bradley singing the song is on Voice of the People [[A Story I'm Just About to Tell|Volume 8]] Track 22
    310 bytes (47 words) - 13:53, 27 October 2009
  • ...15–122). The tune is one of the most common, the most characteristic, and, I would add, the most beautiful of English folk-airs. The version here given
    976 bytes (165 words) - 23:09, 19 November 2018
  • #[[I'm a Man That's Done Wrong]] #[[Thrashing Machine, The|The Thrashing Machine]] / [[I Come from the Country]]
    1,000 bytes (148 words) - 09:33, 19 October 2009
  • W:Mother, I cant whistle neither will I now.<br> W:Mother, I cant whistle neither can I laugh<br>
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  • W:"You think I got no money<br> W:For she is the girl that I adore<br>
    2 KB (507 words) - 00:59, 23 November 2010
  • W:For of courting I am weary, resolved for to marry<br> W:Or else from your company I must refrain"<br>
    3 KB (677 words) - 00:53, 23 November 2010
  • I:linebreak $<br> w: O|once I had time of my|own, and *|in * my own gard\- * en it|grew. I|<br>
    3 KB (570 words) - 22:08, 19 October 2018
  • ...'Brimbledon Fair'' (No. 75), have been compiled from several versions that I have collected.
    327 bytes (54 words) - 21:32, 30 October 2018
  • ...a highwayman and his sweetheart, but were too fragmentary for publication. I have wedded the tune to a different, but similar, set of words which anothe
    277 bytes (49 words) - 22:32, 19 November 2018
  • '''COL/3/7A Canadee-i-o (or True Blue)'''
    291 bytes (51 words) - 20:28, 28 August 2013
  • ...he best singer, that sort of thing - and they would both ask me what songs I had recorded from the other, at the same time claiming to have no real inte ...eck of the Northfleet, The|The Wreck of the Northfleet]]'' and ''[[Canadee-i-o]]'' from his father, and ''[[Feckless Young Girl, The|The Feckless Young
    2 KB (401 words) - 12:52, 20 October 2009
  • ...xtracts from the three other variants I have collected. All the tunes that I have noted are of the same straightforward type.
    2 KB (289 words) - 21:08, 19 October 2018
  • ...was a great favorite with factory girls in the East End of London, where, I am told, it is still to be heard. ...ian with a sharpened third, the only instance of this irregular scale that I have ever come across—probably the unconscious invention of the singer wh
    1 KB (189 words) - 21:27, 18 November 2018
  • ...g, or the Lass With the Golden Hair," circa1700, "printed for and sold by I. Walsh, musical instrument I. Hare, at ye Golden Viall, in St. Paules Church Yard ... and
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  • W:As I walked out one Midsummer's morning<br> W:There I beheld a tender mother<br>
    2 KB (530 words) - 16:32, 22 November 2010
  • ...e ewes hang out their tongues<br/>And hear the lambs to bleat<br/> <br/>So I plucked up my courage<br/>And o’er the hills did go<br/>To pen my sheep i #When I had safely penned my sheep<br/>I turned my back in haste<br/>And yo a jovial company,<br/>Good liquor for to
    2 KB (358 words) - 13:05, 26 October 2009
  • ====HAM-05-33-04 I'll Buy My Love a Pair Of Shoes====
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  • Use the external link to the ABCs, as I can't get the ABCs to behave internally on the wiki.
    309 bytes (45 words) - 20:44, 16 October 2012
  • ...variants with tunes, see the ''Journal of the Folk-Song Society'' (volume i, pp. 119 and 192; volume ii, p. 6); ''English County Songs'' (p. 34); ''Son
    1 KB (185 words) - 21:11, 30 October 2018
  • ...ging Game, “Lady on the Mountain” (Dictionary of British Folk-Lore, volume i, pp. 320–324). Lady Gomme shrewdly guesses that the game was derived from ...were at all complete. …I wrote it down and it got a good deal altered and I never looked upon it at all as a folk-song,” and added that her song was
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  • ===I===
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  • No. 53 a and b. As I walked through the meadows
    322 bytes (57 words) - 22:03, 18 November 2018
  • No. 53 a and b. As I walked through the meadows
    322 bytes (57 words) - 22:03, 18 November 2018
  • W:Long time have I been absent from thee<br> W:I am lately come from the salt sea<br>
    2 KB (467 words) - 17:02, 21 November 2010
  • * Like a Fine Old English Gentleman ''I'll sing you a good old song '' * The Steam Tongue '' I'll sing of a lady a pretty one too''
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  • *[[Once I Had a True Love (LP)|Once I Had a True Love]], [[Topic Records]] 12T193 (9 tracks) *[[Tonight I'll Make You my Bride]], [[Topic Records]] - [[Young Ellender]]
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  • * [[Tonight I'll Make You my Bride|Volume 6 Tonight I'll Make You my Bride]] * [[First I'm Going to Sing You a Ditty|Volume 7 First I'm Going to Sing You a Ditty]]
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  • W:My friends I do not value, for my foes I do not care<br> W:But along eith my jolly seaman bold I will travel far & near<br>
    2 KB (397 words) - 16:01, 21 November 2010
  • ...I adore.<br />Tell her that she'll never see her sailor any more.<br />Say I fell in battle while fighting with those blacks,<br />Every inch a sailor b ...,<br />Until I saw that he was resting on the barrel of his gun.<br />Then I knew that he was badly wounded or he never would give way,<br />When, shaki
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  • '''LEB/2/1/2 I Wish My Baby It Was Born''' '''LEB/2/1/4 When I Was Young In My Youthful Days'''
    2 KB (289 words) - 18:20, 15 May 2016
  • * [[I wish, I wish]] * [[I am a Maid that is deep in Love]]
    2 KB (299 words) - 11:09, 18 September 2010
  • W:One night in sweet slumber I dreamed that I see} rept<br> W:But when I awoke & found it not so } rept<br>
    2 KB (461 words) - 17:04, 21 November 2010
  • This is one of the few two-men folksongs. I have several variants of it, but the words of all of them, except this part
    346 bytes (67 words) - 22:07, 19 November 2018
  • This song, of which I have only collected one variant, is a version of a very ancient ballad, the ⁠I dare na thump you, for your proud kin,<br>
    3 KB (589 words) - 21:44, 19 November 2018
  • I have taken down two variants of this song, and Joyce prints an Irish versio
    435 bytes (70 words) - 22:24, 18 November 2018
  • This, again, is a very popular ballad with English folksingers, and I have noted down nineteen different versions of it. The singer of the Æolia ...ian Minstrelsy'' (p. 64); the ''Journal of the Folk-Song Society'' (volume i, p. 240; volume iii, pp. 192–200); ''Sussex Songs'' (p. 43); Kinloch’s
    2 KB (347 words) - 19:50, 19 October 2018
  • W:I am a young & undaunted youth<br> W:I am a native of Edinburgh<br>
    3 KB (692 words) - 14:59, 13 December 2010
  • The song, I imagine, is a comic derivative, or burlesque, of “Lord Rendal.”
    342 bytes (56 words) - 22:19, 18 November 2018
  • Various - First I'm Going To Sing You A Ditty (Rural Fun & Frolics) ‎(CD, Album, Comp) Topi
    463 bytes (68 words) - 13:44, 14 February 2022
  • ...lsy'' (p. 377); Christie’s ''Traditional Ballad Airs of Scotland'' (volume i, p. 184); and Kinloch’s ''Ancient Scottish Ballads'' (pp. 15 and 25). I have collected several variants of this ballad, four of which may be seen i
    2 KB (252 words) - 19:29, 19 October 2018
  • ...cottish Songs'' (volume i, p. 157); Jamieson’s ''Popular Ballads'' (volume i, p. 151); ''Notes and Queries'' (Series 1); and Child’s ''English and Sco I have discovered three other versions of this ballad besides the one in this
    3 KB (557 words) - 20:07, 19 October 2018
  • ...ftening down of an earlier ballad which has its analogue in Scotland,” and I suspect that this is the true explanation.
    1 KB (228 words) - 22:24, 30 October 2018
  • * I Thought I Was The Only One: Dulcimer Players From England: Veteran VTVS07/08. Double
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  • ...aul's Church Yard it is probable that he did not remove from the premises. I have not found out when he ceased business, but it was most likely before 1 ...le or part of his stock-in-trade was bought by John Johnson, of Cheapside, I am unable to say, but Johnson certainly re-published two volumes of Country
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  • [[As I walked through the meadows]] <br> [[As I was going to Romford]]<br>
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