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• 20: Cruel Mother,The
  The Cruel Mother Child 20 [[Child 20 Comment]]
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• 16: Sheath and Knife
  Child 16 [[Francis J Child|Back to list of Child ballads]]
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• 151: The King's Disguise, and Friendship with Robin Hood
  ...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]]
  653 bytes (105 words) - 12:32, 26 January 2009
• 152: Robin Hood and the Golden Arrow
  ...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.
  455 bytes (70 words) - 12:31, 26 January 2009
• 150: Robin Hood and Maid Marian
  ...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]]
  553 bytes (93 words) - 12:32, 26 January 2009
• 15: Leesom Brand
  [[Child 15]] [http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/child-ballads/ch015.htm Text at Traditional Music site]
  909 bytes (138 words) - 23:58, 21 March 2009
• 133: Robin Hood and the Beggar, I
  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.
  899 bytes (161 words) - 00:12, 17 January 2009
• 149: Robin Hood's Birth, Breeding, Valor and Marriage
  ...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]]
  653 bytes (110 words) - 12:33, 26 January 2009
• 141: Robin Hood Rescuing Will Stutly
  ...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
  783 bytes (129 words) - 10:13, 23 January 2009
• 154: A True Tale of Robin Hood
  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]]
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• 117: A Gest of Robyn Hode
  ...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]]
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• Child 295 Comment
  == 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’.
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• 118: Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne
  ...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]]
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• Child 20 Comment
  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
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• 143: Robin Hood and the Bishop
  ...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
  1,007 bytes (168 words) - 10:22, 23 January 2009
• Child 15/16 Comment
  == 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
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• 145: Robin Hood and Queen Katherine
  ...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
  597 bytes (93 words) - 10:24, 23 January 2009
• Ballads
  ...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).
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• Child 8 Comment
  ...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
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• 132: The Bold Pedlar and Robin Hood
  ...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
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• 148: The Noble Fisherman or Robin Hood's Preferment
  ...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
  955 bytes (165 words) - 10:32, 23 January 2009
• Cecil Sharp's Note 27 (1916)
  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
  679 bytes (108 words) - 21:21, 30 October 2018
• 153: Robin Hood and the Valiant Knight
  ...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]]
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• 144: Robin Hood and the Bishop of Hereford
  ...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
  787 bytes (130 words) - 10:19, 23 January 2009
• 129: Robin Hood and the Prince of Aragon
  ...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.'
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• 138: Robin Hood and Allen a Dale
  ...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.
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• Cecil Sharp's Note 14 (1916)
  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:
  978 bytes (155 words) - 20:58, 19 October 2018
• 142: Little John a Begging
  ...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
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• 140: Robin Hood Rescuing Three Squires
  ...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
  1,014 bytes (162 words) - 10:10, 23 January 2009
• Cecil Sharp's Note 06 (1916)
  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''.
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• 125: Robin Hood and Little John
  ...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.
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• 293: John of Hazelgreen
  == John of Hazelgreen Child 293 Roud 250 == Number of versions in : Child 4, Bronson 28
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• Cecil Sharp's Note 23 (1916)
  ...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).
  950 bytes (158 words) - 21:04, 30 October 2018
• 134: Robin Hood and the Beggar, II
  ...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
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• 295: The Brown Girl
  The Brown Girl Child 295A Versions in Child 1 Bronson 0
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• 146: Robin Hood's Chase
  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.
  835 bytes (138 words) - 10:26, 23 January 2009
• 139: Robin Hood's Progress to Nottingham
  ...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
  847 bytes (136 words) - 10:07, 23 January 2009
• 147: Robin Hood's Golden Prize
  ...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
  803 bytes (132 words) - 10:28, 23 January 2009
• Cecil Sharp's Note 29 (1916)
  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.
  365 bytes (60 words) - 21:26, 30 October 2018
• Cecil Sharp's Note 26 (1916)
  ...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
  398 bytes (68 words) - 21:16, 30 October 2018
• 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
  876 bytes (135 words) - 21:14, 30 October 2018
• 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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