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  • Cecil Sharp's Note 47 (1916)
    ...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
  • Cecil Sharp's Note 36 (1916)
    ...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
  • Cecil Sharp's Note 65 (1916)
    ...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
  • Cecil Sharp's Note 72 (1916)
    ...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
  • 53b As I walked through the meadows. (''Second Version'')
    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 ]]
    418 bytes (67 words) - 15:09, 6 May 2020
  • 53a As I walked through the meadows. (''First Version'')
    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 ]]
    420 bytes (67 words) - 15:08, 6 May 2020
  • Jack Williams
    ...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>
    2 KB (310 words) - 18:22, 30 December 2012
  • 61 I'm Seventeen Come Sunday
    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
  • Cecil Sharp's Note 32 (1916)
    ...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
  • Cecil Sharp's Note 57 (1916)
    ...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
  • Cecil Sharp's Note 73 (1916)
    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
  • Cecil Sharp's Note 100 (1916)
    ...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
  • Cecil Sharp's Note 86 (1916)
    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
  • Balance the Straw
    From the man whom I Love, tho’ my Heart I disguise<br> I will freely discribe the Wretch I despise<br>
    1 KB (154 words) - 07:11, 8 June 2021
  • Cecil Sharp's Note 46 (1916)
    ...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
  • Cecil Sharp's Note 44 (1916)
    ...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
  • Cecil Sharp's Note 50 (1916)
    ...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
  • Cecil Sharp's Note 41 (1916)
    ...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
  • Cecil Sharp's Note 48 (1916)
    ...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
  • Cecil Sharp's Note 71 (1916)
    ...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
  • 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
  • Jigs
    ===I===
    850 bytes (134 words) - 06:14, 16 July 2012
  • 31 Sweet Kitty
    I:linebreak $<br> w: Fol the didd- le|de- ro,|Fol the didd- le|de ro, Sing|le- ro\- * i-|day.|<br>
    2 KB (441 words) - 22:05, 19 October 2018
  • Cecil Sharp's Note 22 (1916)
    ...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
    1 KB (201 words) - 21:00, 30 October 2018
  • Cecil Sharp's Note 20 (1916)
    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
    2 KB (388 words) - 21:51, 19 October 2018
  • HAM-05-32-26.abc
    W:Tis not my gold watch nor my money I value<br> W:Tis not my gold watch nor my money I crave<br>
    4 KB (867 words) - 16:48, 21 November 2010
  • 86 Botany Bay
    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
  • Cecil Sharp's Note 39 (1916)
    ...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
  • Cecil Sharp's Note 14 (1916)
    ...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
  • Jack Goodban
    ...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
    1 KB (249 words) - 22:02, 18 January 2011
  • Cecil Sharp's Note 84 (1916)
    ...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.
    2 KB (311 words) - 22:35, 19 November 2018

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