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• Cecil Sharp's Note 17 (1916)
  ...fifty versions have been collected in Finland. In the foreign forms of the ballad, the victim usually falls into the hands of corsairs or pirates, who demand Child also quotes another English variant communicated by Dr. Birkbeck Hill in 18
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• Cecil Sharp's Note 25 (1916)
  ...“Lady Mary Ann”). For some reason or other, Child makes no mention of this ballad. For particulars of the custom of wearing ribands to denote betrothal or ma
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• Cecil Sharp's Note 15 (1916)
  ...Ballads'' (p. 89). Kinloch makes an attempt to connect the subject of the ballad with “the secret expedition of James V to France, in 1536, in search of a Under the heading of “Willie o’ Winsbury,” Child treats the ballad very exhaustively (''English and Scottish Ballads'', No, 100). He gives a v
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• Cecil Sharp's Note 01 (1916)
  Versions of this ballad, with tunes, are in Mr. Kidson’s ''Traditional Tunes'' (p. 30); in ''Song ...h broadside; and, in Percy’s ''Reliques'', there is a long and much edited ballad, called “Sir Andrew Barton,” with which, however, the traditional versi
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• Cecil Sharp's Note (1916)
  Vesions of this ballad, with tunes, are in Mr. Kidson’s ''Traditional Tunes'' (p. 30); in ''Song ...tnach broadside; and, in Percy’s Reliques, there is a long and much edited ballad, called “Sir Andrew Barton,” with which, however, the traditional versi
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• Child 293 Comment
  '''Child 293 [[John of Hazelgreen]]''' ...ipts could easily be close to the original, from which Kinloch’s versions, Child B, C and E derive.
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• Packie Manus Byrne
  ...e in thirty years!” Then he sang me a version of ''Johnny o’ Hazelgreen'' (Child 293), which turned out to be the first version ever collected from an Irish
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• Cecil Sharp's Note 13 (1916)
  The earliest published form of the ballad is in Herd’s ''Scottish Songs'' (volume ii, p. 237, ed. 1776). Other Scot Child points out that the ballad has affinities with “The Maid and the Palmer,” and quotes two Danish ba
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• Cecil Sharp's Note 02 (1916)
  ...d is one of the very few that succeeded in eluding the notice of Professor Child.
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• Child 7 Comment
  Although Child understandably put together ‘Earl Brand’ (EB) and ‘Lord Douglas’s T ...g back to the seventeenth century, we only have evidence that the Scottish ballad existed in manuscripts and oral tradition in a relatively brief half-centur
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• Cecil Sharp's Note 24 (1916)
  ...everal traditional versions of the words are printed by Child. Compare the ballad of “William and Marjorie” (Motherwell’s ''Minstrelsy'', p. 186), and
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• Cecil Sharp's Note 84 (1916)
  ...iety'' (volume i, p. 81; volume iii, 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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• Cecil Sharp's Note 20 (1916)
  This is, I believe, the only copy of this ballad that has as yet been collected in England. The tune, which, of course, is m ...together with the following comment: “There is a novelty in this legendary ballad very amusing, and it must be very old. I never saw anything in print which
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• Child 209 Comment
  Go to [[Francis J Child|the list of Child Ballads]] ...nts. If these claims are correct the earliest would appear to be the Scots ballad which is said to relate to events that happened in 1554 to George Gordon, F
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• Cecil Sharp's Note 08 (1916)
  ...opular Ballads'' (volume i, p. 151); ''Notes and Queries'' (Series 1); and Child’s ''English and Scottish Ballads'' (No. 155). The story of this ballad is closely connected with that of the carols “The Bitter Withy” and “
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• Cecil Sharp's Note 11 (1916)
  Child, speaking of this ballad (''English and Scottish Ballads'', No. 4), remarks: “Of all the ballads t This ballad is widely known throughout England, and I have taken it down no less than t
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• Cecil Sharp's Note 21 (1916)
  The singer of this ballad, a native of Sheffield, told me that he learned it from his father, who, in ...shed in ''Longman’s Magazine'' (volume xvii, p. 217, ed. 1890), and in the Ballad Society’s edition of the Roxburghe Ballads (part xv, volume v, ed. 1885).
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• Cecil Sharp's Note 09 (1916)
  Child gives many versions and exhaustive notes. ...volume i, p. 133) prints a version, “Gight’s Lady,” and suggests that the ballad “recounts an affair which actually took place in the reign, or rather the
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• Introduction to the Robin Hood Ballads
  ==Robin Hood Ballads. Child 117-154, A Summary by Steve Gardham.== ...ed upon earlier outlaw legends such as those of Fulk Fitzwarren. The Gest (Child 117) is generally accepted by RH scholars as a compilation of several separ
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• Cecil Sharp's Note 18 (1916)
  This ballad is sung very finely from one end of the island to the other, and I have tak One of the earliest printed versions of this ballad is in Johnson’s ''The Scots Musical Museum'' (1787–1803) under the head
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