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...a most contemptible performance:’ Child also applies this to 152 and 153. Child states, ‘The story is a loose paraphrase, with omissions, of the seventh [[Category:Child Ballad]]

...Gest’ (117), stanzas 282-95.’ It appears to be a prequel to the following ballad 152. ...es no reference to it and there are no oral versions. See notes to 151 for Child’s condemnation of it.

...nidentified. Child describes it as ‘this foolish ditty’ and it is the only ballad in which Robin Hood and Maid Marian actually both feature together strongly [[Category:Child Ballad]]

[[Child 15]] [http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/child-ballads/ch015.htm Text at Traditional Music site]

This ballad appeared in the 1663 and 1670 Garlands and the same version in the Wood, Pe ...ing at stanza 20, from RH rescuing Three Squires, and what precedes from a ballad resembling RH and the Beggar, II.

...the action. Copies can be found in the Pepys and Roxburghe Collections. As Child states, ‘It is certainly far from anything found in oral tradition.’ [[Category:Child Ballad]]

...er and nothing in the style. It may be considered as an imitation of 140.’ Child gives a version ‘RH and the Sheriff’ in an appendix, from Kinloch’s M

This, the last of Child’s RH ballads, was written by that well-known prolific ballad writer, Martin Parker, and the Stationers’ Register entry for printer Fra [[Category:Child Ballad]]

...y. The ballad does not even survive in fragments out of print, although as Child states some of its component plots are found in other RH ballads. No added [[Category:Child Ballad]]

== Child 295 The Brown Girl == ...on that 295B is a collation by Baring Gould of 295A and a common broadside ballad ‘The Dover Sailor’/’Sally and her True Love Billy’.

...dramatic piece exists dated 1475 which is obviously closely related to the ballad. No evidence of oral tradition. Bronson has a note on the lack of a tune bu [[Category:Child Ballad]]

The Cruel Mother Child 20 Here we have a rare Child Ballad in that, in my honest opinion, he got this one quite wrong in terms of its

...he Pepys and Roxburghe Collections. Child proposed the idea that both this ballad and 144 ‘RH and the Bishop of Hereford’ were influenced by the plot of Bronson has little to say on this ballad except that the tune is designated as ‘RH and the Stranger’, which make

== Child 15/16 Leesome Brand/Sheath and Knife == ...ild 15 ‘Leesome Brand’ and Child 16 ‘Sheath and Knife’ are indeed the same ballad. Buchan’s grotesque expansion, followed by Motherwell, 15A, can be discou

...1670 Garlands. This version was reprinted in eighteenth century garlands. Child also gives a more recent remake of the story found in the 1663 Garland. ...ssibilities, mainly dismissing Rimbault’s and Child’s suggestions of other ballad tunes. He also includes useful discussion on the general designation of tun

...nguish a ballad from other folk songs, but here are some pointers. The ballad always tells a story, rarely in the first person, usually of epic rather th ...[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Allen_%28song%29] ''Barbara Allen'' (Child No. 84).

...cott claims to have collated the two copies they are almost identical, and Child conjectures they are so close as to have been versions taken down at differ ...pxxvii) Indeed it was Telfer’s version of Earl Brand (7A) that was sent to Child by Robert White the Newcastle antiquary and Telfer’s close friend. The wa

...775 [BL 1346.m.7(9)] where it is titled 'Robin Hood and the Proud Pedlar'. Child gives this and an oral version from Dixon's 'Ancient Poems and Ballads' whe ...Of 'Robin Hood Newly Revived' No. 128. It appears to be a rewrite of that ballad, possibly by a broadside hack. The garland version has Robin Hood's cousin

...cribing the plot Child wrote, ‘All this may strike us as infantile but the ballad was evidently in great favour 200 years ago.’ (i.e. c1690). Personally I

Under the heading “Lamkin,” Child deals very fully with this ballad. There is a tradition in Northumberland that Lamkin and his tower were part ...Society'' (volume i, p. 212; volume ii, p. 111; volume v, pp. 81–84). The ballad given here was collected in Cambridgeshire, in which county it is still ver

...teenth century garlands and was likely composed for that medium as filler. Child’s comment is appropriate here, ‘Written, perhaps, because it was though [[Category:Child Ballad]]

...of this ballad in Robin Hood’s Garland of 1749, and a version of the stall ballad somewhat rewritten occurs in Elizabeth Cotton’s Manuscript Song Book whic

...cated by the matter of the two being as alien as oil and water.' The title Child used appears in Thackeray's list of printed ballads and was used on mid-eig ...ulous hand and ear of George Herzog. It doesn't sound very convincing as a ballad tune; it has two strains and modulates.'

...garlands. Pitts of London also printed it in the early nineteenth century. Child mentions a Scoticised version in Kinloch’s Collection derived from a stal ...th century, which is summarized by Child in his introductory notes to this ballad.

Many versions of this ballad have been published with tunes, for example, the ''Journal of the Folk-Song Child (No. 286) reprints a 17th century broadside version, beginning:

...t in common with the broadsides and should really be considered a separate ballad, although the stories are obviously related. It is a pity that some of the ...t been found in oral tradition. Through the process of linking from one RH ballad to another in designated tunes Bronson arrives at the conclusion that the b

...rces and other ballads, like Hind Horn (17), for some of the events in the ballad. Under that popular but confusing title of ‘Bold Robin Hood’ it continu

This, again, is a very popular ballad with English folksingers, and I have noted down nineteen different versions ...nglish Folk Songs for Schools'' (No. 11); and George Cruikshank’s ''Loving Ballad of Lord Bateman''.

...the Stationers Register but these can not be positively identified as this ballad. ...ee stanza version and the Ohio version and mentions its use of the tune of Child 126/127.

== John of Hazelgreen Child 293 Roud 250 == Number of versions in : Child 4, Bronson 28

...in the Roxburghe and Ebsworth Collections and in Johnson’s ''Museum''. The ballad appears also in ''Garlands'', printed about 1760, as “The Sorrowful Lover The “vow” verse occurs in “Bonny Bee Hom,” a well-known Scottish ballad (Child, No. 92).

...in Hood and a beggar”.’ The story may be ancient but I very much doubt the ballad is. ...or even Ritson himself? Other factors which have formed my opinion on this ballad are the precise stress and metre, the attention to alliteration and the ove

The Brown Girl Child 295A Versions in Child 1 Bronson 0

Beginning with a summary of 145 ‘RH and Queen Katherine’, Child described it as a sequel to 145. It appeared in the Garlands 0f 1663 and 16 ...ng the tune back leads us to 125/126. Bronson deals very briefly with this ballad as there are no oral versions.

...in London c1620-55. Child states, ‘This is evidently a comparatively late ballad, but has not come down to us in its oldest form.’ The story occurs in ear

...seventeenth century broadsides are in the Pepys and Roxburghe collections. Child states, ‘The kernel of the story is an old tale we find represented in Pa

For other versions see Child (No. 170) and the ''Journal of the Folk-Song Society'' (volume ii, p. 221; ...s no evidence that hear death was brought about in the way narrated in the ballad.

...the exception of the last two stanzas). Versions of the words are given in Child (''English and Scottish Ballads''); Bell’s ''Early Ballads'' (p. 134); an

...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

...“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

...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

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

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

'''Child 293 [[John of Hazelgreen]]''' ...ipts could easily be close to the original, from which Kinloch’s versions, Child B, C and E derive.

...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

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

...d is one of the very few that succeeded in eluding the notice of Professor Child.

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

...everal traditional versions of the words are printed by Child. Compare the ballad of “William and Marjorie” (Motherwell’s ''Minstrelsy'', p. 186), and

...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.

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

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

...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 “

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

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).

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

==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

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

Go to [[Child 209 Comment]] to read the background information. ...y by Such of London. The last stanza is no doubt influenced by a stanza in Child 78, ‘The Unquiet Grave’.

== The Child Ballads == ...ballad anthologies, the eventual format which evolved being in 3 sections, Child ballads, British broadside ballads and native American ballads.

...a version of a very ancient ballad, the history of which may be traced in Child’s ''English and Scottish Ballads'' (No. 227), and in Miss Gilchrist’s n ...is an addition, which became attached to an older and simpler form of the ballad. The facts, as they stand, admit of either interpretation.

...Ray was the song Wild, Wild Berry, a haunting reworking of the Lord Randal ballad. ...p; Ray also picked up songs from the streets of south London when he was a child and from singers in Shropshire a few years later.  He had returned to

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...te contains the text of ''The Foreigner's Downfall'', another contemporary ballad written about the murder, and which does not appear to have been preserved ...found, all in the bloom of the year,<br />"Mercy!" cried the poor innocent child with her eyes all filled with tears;<br />He drew the dagger into her breas

English ballad broadsides by theme at the [https://digital.nls.uk/english-ballads/archive/ * [[Francis J Child]]

...es - the words often exchanged for a pint of beer - while others came from ballad sheets bought at fairs. ...0 or 60 songs from the list which she considered to be “of the traditional ballad type” (English Traditional Songs and Carols p xi). Burstow visited Broadw

W: Anne Gilchrist adds: See Child's Popular Ballads,<br> W: under 'The Suffolk Miracle', for full notes on this ballad,<br>