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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
  2 KB (388 words) - 21:51, 19 October 2018
• 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 “
  3 KB (557 words) - 20:07, 19 October 2018
• 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
  3 KB (540 words) - 20:32, 19 October 2018
• 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).
  2 KB (438 words) - 20:56, 30 October 2018
• 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
  2 KB (304 words) - 20:15, 19 October 2018
• 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
  3 KB (484 words) - 21:41, 19 October 2018
• 209: Geordie
  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’.
  7 KB (1,269 words) - 23:50, 21 March 2009
• Francis J Child
  == The Child Ballads == ...ballad anthologies, the eventual format which evolved being in 3 sections, Child ballads, British broadside ballads and native American ballads.
  14 KB (1,968 words) - 00:12, 22 March 2009
• Cecil Sharp's Note 70 (1916)
  ...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.
  3 KB (589 words) - 21:44, 19 November 2018
• Ray Driscoll
  ...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
  4 KB (672 words) - 12:23, 15 July 2009
• A. L. Lloyd
  *''Singing The Fishing - A [[Radio Ballads|Radio Ballad]]'', Argo Records (UK) LP, 1967 *''The Transports ''A Ballad Opera by Peter Bellamy)'', [[Free Reed]] (UK) 2LP, 1977
  7 KB (1,149 words) - 15:05, 7 February 2021
• Folkestone Murder, The
  ...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
  9 KB (1,615 words) - 13:18, 1 March 2012
• Song
  English ballad broadsides by theme at the [https://digital.nls.uk/english-ballads/archive/ * [[Francis J Child]]
  10 KB (1,507 words) - 00:11, 8 May 2022
• Henry Burstow
  ...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
  23 KB (3,638 words) - 01:13, 29 June 2008
• Take 6 Transcription Programme: The Butterworth Archive, MS 6b
  W: Anne Gilchrist adds: See Child's Popular Ballads,<br> W: under 'The Suffolk Miracle', for full notes on this ballad,<br>
  44 KB (9,339 words) - 13:46, 20 April 2016

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