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• Cecil Sharp's Note 26 (1916)
  ...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
• Cecilia Costello (LP)
  * [[I wish, I wish]] * [[I am a Maid that is deep in Love]]
  687 bytes (96 words) - 11:07, 18 September 2010
• Cecil Sharp's Note 94 (1916)
  ...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
• Cecil Sharp's Note 54 (1916)
  ...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
• Morgan Rattler-Song
  And for cheating poor lads like o I is their trades; When I was at home, why, I was her prattler,
  3 KB (532 words) - 17:32, 15 June 2010
• Cecil Sharp's Note 07 (1916)
  ...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
• Swalcliffe May Day Carol
  ...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
  1 KB (260 words) - 09:39, 31 December 2012
• Chris Willett
  ...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."
  2 KB (310 words) - 14:10, 24 March 2012
• Cecil Sharp's Note 42 (1916)
  ...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
• Cecil Sharp's Note 82 (1916)
  ...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
• 41 Bedlam
  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 *|
  1 KB (193 words) - 17:03, 3 May 2020
• Cecil Sharp's Note 51 (1916)
  ...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
• Cecil Sharp's Note 34 (1916)
  ...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
• Cecil Sharp's Note 69 (1916)
  ...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
• Cecil Sharp's Note 10 (1916)
  ...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>
  1 KB (179 words) - 20:19, 19 October 2018
• HAM-05-32-13.abc
  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>
  2 KB (437 words) - 16:04, 21 November 2010
• 30 Farewell, Nancy
  I:linebreak $ ...dear- est|Nan- cy, since *|I must now *|leave you Un- *|to the salt *|seas I * am *|bound for to|
  1 KB (190 words) - 19:19, 1 March 2019
• Long Company
  I did him slay, I did him kill, He gave me challenge, how could I it deny
  1 KB (181 words) - 14:28, 9 June 2010
• O once I was a shepherd's boy
  '''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/>
  1 KB (287 words) - 14:21, 30 December 2012
• Once I Had a True Love (LP)
  '''[[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

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