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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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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>
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  • 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>
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  • 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,
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  • 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."
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  • 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 *|
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  • 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>
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  • 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>
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  • 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|
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  • Long Company
    I did him slay, I did him kill, He gave me challenge, how could I it deny
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  • 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/>
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  • 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===
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  • 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
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  • 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>
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  • 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
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  • 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
  • HAM-05-32-04.abc
    W:As I was going up through Glastonbury Street,<br> W:I lookèd high and I lookèd low,<br>
    2 KB (587 words) - 03:51, 23 November 2010
  • Cecil Sharp's Note 23 (1916)
    ...of Ballads'' (pp. 23–25); the ''Journal of the Folk-Song Society''(volume i, p. 97; volume iii, p. 307); and Dr. Joyce’s ''Ancient Irish Music'' (No. The words in the text are virtually as I took them down from the singer. The tune is partly Mixolydian. The word “
    950 bytes (158 words) - 21:04, 30 October 2018
  • Cecil Sharp's Note 64 (1916)
    This, of course, is clearly allied to the preceding song. I have collected only two other versions of it. The words of the first three
    244 bytes (45 words) - 20:55, 19 November 2018
  • HAM-05-32-35.abc
    W:Tis down by the river-side, a fair maid I espied<br> W:"What makes you sigh & cry, my fair pretty maid" said I.<br>
    1 KB (310 words) - 17:12, 21 November 2010
  • Cecil Sharp's Note 19 (1916)
    ...mbault’s ''Music to Reliques of Ancient Poetry''. See also “Blow the winds I ho!” in Bell’s ''Ballads of the English Peasantry'', and “Blow away y ...d Songs'' (volume ii, p. 131). For other versions, see Child’s collection. I have secured thirteen variants, one of which was used as a Capstan Chantey.
    944 bytes (151 words) - 21:45, 19 October 2018
  • Calvery
    ...ording of May Bradley singing the song is on Voice of the People [[A Story I'm Just About to Tell|Volume 8]] Track 22
    310 bytes (47 words) - 13:53, 27 October 2009
  • Cecil Sharp's Note 91 (1916)
    ...15–122). The tune is one of the most common, the most characteristic, and, I would add, the most beautiful of English folk-airs. The version here given
    976 bytes (165 words) - 23:09, 19 November 2018
  • Why Can't It Always Be Saturday? (LP)
    #[[I'm a Man That's Done Wrong]] #[[Thrashing Machine, The|The Thrashing Machine]] / [[I Come from the Country]]
    1,000 bytes (148 words) - 09:33, 19 October 2009
  • HAM-05-32-27.abc
    W:Mother, I cant whistle neither will I now.<br> W:Mother, I cant whistle neither can I laugh<br>
    2 KB (536 words) - 16:50, 21 November 2010
  • HAM-05-33-02.abc
    W:"You think I got no money<br> W:For she is the girl that I adore<br>
    2 KB (507 words) - 00:59, 23 November 2010
  • HAM-05-33-03abc
    W:For of courting I am weary, resolved for to marry<br> W:Or else from your company I must refrain"<br>
    3 KB (677 words) - 00:53, 23 November 2010
  • 34 The Sprig of Thyme
    I:linebreak $<br> w: O|once I had time of my|own, and *|in * my own gard\- * en it|grew. I|<br>
    3 KB (570 words) - 22:08, 19 October 2018
  • Cecil Sharp's Note 31 (1916)
    ...'Brimbledon Fair'' (No. 75), have been compiled from several versions that I have collected.
    327 bytes (54 words) - 21:32, 30 October 2018
  • Cecil Sharp's Note 83 (1916)
    ...a highwayman and his sweetheart, but were too fragmentary for publication. I have wedded the tune to a different, but similar, set of words which anothe
    277 bytes (49 words) - 22:32, 19 November 2018
  • Take 6 Transcription Programme: The Collinson Archive, Vol 3
    '''COL/3/7A Canadee-i-o (or True Blue)'''
    291 bytes (51 words) - 20:28, 28 August 2013
  • Harry Upton
    ...he best singer, that sort of thing - and they would both ask me what songs I had recorded from the other, at the same time claiming to have no real inte ...eck of the Northfleet, The|The Wreck of the Northfleet]]'' and ''[[Canadee-i-o]]'' from his father, and ''[[Feckless Young Girl, The|The Feckless Young
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  • Cecil Sharp's Note 15 (1916)
    ...xtracts from the three other variants I have collected. All the tunes that I have noted are of the same straightforward type.
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  • Cecil Sharp's Note 45 (1916)
    ...was a great favorite with factory girls in the East End of London, where, I am told, it is still to be heard. ...ian with a sharpened third, the only instance of this irregular scale that I have ever come across—probably the unconscious invention of the singer wh
    1 KB (189 words) - 21:27, 18 November 2018
  • John Young
    ...g, or the Lass With the Golden Hair," circa1700, "printed for and sold by I. Walsh, musical instrument I. Hare, at ye Golden Viall, in St. Paules Church Yard ... and
    2 KB (444 words) - 13:34, 26 September 2012
  • HAM-05-32-08.abc
    W:As I walked out one Midsummer's morning<br> W:There I beheld a tender mother<br>
    2 KB (530 words) - 16:32, 22 November 2010
  • We Shepherds are the Best of Men
    ...e ewes hang out their tongues<br/>And hear the lambs to bleat<br/> <br/>So I plucked up my courage<br/>And o’er the hills did go<br/>To pen my sheep i #When I had safely penned my sheep<br/>I turned my back in haste<br/>And yo a jovial company,<br/>Good liquor for to
    2 KB (358 words) - 13:05, 26 October 2009
  • Hammond Folder 33
    ====HAM-05-33-04 I'll Buy My Love a Pair Of Shoes====
    1 KB (256 words) - 05:30, 23 November 2010
  • Craigs EmpVioCollABCs
    Use the external link to the ABCs, as I can't get the ABCs to behave internally on the wiki.
    309 bytes (45 words) - 20:44, 16 October 2012
  • Cecil Sharp's Note 24 (1916)
    ...variants with tunes, see the ''Journal of the Folk-Song Society'' (volume i, pp. 119 and 192; volume ii, p. 6); ''English County Songs'' (p. 34); ''Son
    1 KB (185 words) - 21:11, 30 October 2018
  • Cecil Sharp's Note 68 (1916)
    ...ging Game, “Lady on the Mountain” (Dictionary of British Folk-Lore, volume i, pp. 320–324). Lady Gomme shrewdly guesses that the game was derived from ...were at all complete. …I wrote it down and it got a good deal altered and I never looked upon it at all as a folk-song,” and added that her song was
    2 KB (285 words) - 21:09, 19 November 2018
  • All Dance Tunes- Alphabetical
    ===I===
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  • Cecil Sharp's Note 53a (1916)
    No. 53 a and b. As I walked through the meadows
    322 bytes (57 words) - 22:03, 18 November 2018
  • Cecil Sharp's Note 53b (1916)
    No. 53 a and b. As I walked through the meadows
    322 bytes (57 words) - 22:03, 18 November 2018
  • HAM-05-32-31.abc
    W:Long time have I been absent from thee<br> W:I am lately come from the salt sea<br>
    2 KB (467 words) - 17:02, 21 November 2010
  • John Johnson (singer)
    * Like a Fine Old English Gentleman ''I'll sing you a good old song '' * The Steam Tongue '' I'll sing of a lady a pretty one too''
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  • Phoebe Smith
    *[[Once I Had a True Love (LP)|Once I Had a True Love]], [[Topic Records]] 12T193 (9 tracks) *[[Tonight I'll Make You my Bride]], [[Topic Records]] - [[Young Ellender]]
    2 KB (269 words) - 12:50, 25 January 2010
  • The Voice of the People
    * [[Tonight I'll Make You my Bride|Volume 6 Tonight I'll Make You my Bride]] * [[First I'm Going to Sing You a Ditty|Volume 7 First I'm Going to Sing You a Ditty]]
    3 KB (523 words) - 08:15, 16 May 2012
  • HAM-05-32-07.abc
    W:My friends I do not value, for my foes I do not care<br> W:But along eith my jolly seaman bold I will travel far & near<br>
    2 KB (397 words) - 16:01, 21 November 2010
  • Zulu War, The
    ...I adore.<br />Tell her that she'll never see her sailor any more.<br />Say I fell in battle while fighting with those blacks,<br />Every inch a sailor b ...,<br />Until I saw that he was resting on the barrel of his gun.<br />Then I knew that he was badly wounded or he never would give way,<br />When, shaki
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  • Full English Transcription Programme: The Lucy Broadwood Manuscript Collection, MS LEB/2/1
    '''LEB/2/1/2 I Wish My Baby It Was Born''' '''LEB/2/1/4 When I Was Young In My Youthful Days'''
    2 KB (289 words) - 18:20, 15 May 2016
  • Cecilia Costello
    * [[I wish, I wish]] * [[I am a Maid that is deep in Love]]
    2 KB (299 words) - 11:09, 18 September 2010
  • HAM-05-32-32.abc
    W:One night in sweet slumber I dreamed that I see} rept<br> W:But when I awoke & found it not so } rept<br>
    2 KB (461 words) - 17:04, 21 November 2010
  • Cecil Sharp's Note 79 (1916)
    This is one of the few two-men folksongs. I have several variants of it, but the words of all of them, except this part
    346 bytes (67 words) - 22:07, 19 November 2018
  • Cecil Sharp's Note 70 (1916)
    This song, of which I have only collected one variant, is a version of a very ancient ballad, the ⁠I dare na thump you, for your proud kin,<br>
    3 KB (589 words) - 21:44, 19 November 2018
  • Cecil Sharp's Note 59 (1916)
    I have taken down two variants of this song, and Joyce prints an Irish versio
    435 bytes (70 words) - 22:24, 18 November 2018
  • Cecil Sharp's Note 06 (1916)
    This, again, is a very popular ballad with English folksingers, and I have noted down nineteen different versions of it. The singer of the Æolia ...ian Minstrelsy'' (p. 64); the ''Journal of the Folk-Song Society'' (volume i, p. 240; volume iii, pp. 192–200); ''Sussex Songs'' (p. 43); Kinloch’s
    2 KB (347 words) - 19:50, 19 October 2018
  • HAM-5-32-15.abc
    W:I am a young & undaunted youth<br> W:I am a native of Edinburgh<br>
    3 KB (692 words) - 14:59, 13 December 2010
  • Cecil Sharp's Note 58 (1916)
    The song, I imagine, is a comic derivative, or burlesque, of “Lord Rendal.”
    342 bytes (56 words) - 22:19, 18 November 2018
  • Sam Bond
    Various - First I'm Going To Sing You A Ditty (Rural Fun & Frolics) ‎(CD, Album, Comp) Topi
    463 bytes (68 words) - 13:44, 14 February 2022
  • Cecil Sharp's Note 03 (1916)
    ...lsy'' (p. 377); Christie’s ''Traditional Ballad Airs of Scotland'' (volume i, p. 184); and Kinloch’s ''Ancient Scottish Ballads'' (pp. 15 and 25). I have collected several variants of this ballad, four of which may be seen i
    2 KB (252 words) - 19:29, 19 October 2018
  • Cecil Sharp's Note 08 (1916)
    ...cottish Songs'' (volume i, p. 157); Jamieson’s ''Popular Ballads'' (volume i, p. 151); ''Notes and Queries'' (Series 1); and Child’s ''English and Sco I have discovered three other versions of this ballad besides the one in this
    3 KB (557 words) - 20:07, 19 October 2018
  • Cecil Sharp's Note 40 (1916)
    ...ftening down of an earlier ballad which has its analogue in Scotland,” and I suspect that this is the true explanation.
    1 KB (228 words) - 22:24, 30 October 2018
  • Billy Cooper
    * I Thought I Was The Only One: Dulcimer Players From England: Veteran VTVS07/08. Double
    1 KB (212 words) - 21:45, 16 February 2022
  • Daniel Wright
    ...aul's Church Yard it is probable that he did not remove from the premises. I have not found out when he ceased business, but it was most likely before 1 ...le or part of his stock-in-trade was bought by John Johnson, of Cheapside, I am unable to say, but Johnson certainly re-published two volumes of Country
    3 KB (581 words) - 16:56, 12 May 2017
  • Shadrack Hayden
    [[As I walked through the meadows]] <br> [[As I was going to Romford]]<br>
    3 KB (518 words) - 14:17, 30 December 2012
  • Cecil Sharp's Note 11 (1916)
    ...s book has been compiled. As a rule the versions vary but little, although I have heard only one singer sing the seventh and eighth stanzas of the text. ...gives a second version of the ballad entitled “The Gowans sae Gay” (volume i, p. 22). In the latter, the hero appears as an elf-knight, and the catastro
    3 KB (540 words) - 20:32, 19 October 2018
  • Cecil Sharp's Note 30 (1916)
    ...s with tunes are given in the ''Journal of the Folk-Song Society'' (volume i, p. 130; volume ii, pp. 99 and 298); and in Joyce’s ''Ancient Irish Music
    409 bytes (67 words) - 21:29, 30 October 2018
  • Cecil J. Sharp and Charles L. Marson (1904) ''Folk Songs From Somerset Volume 2''
    29. I'm Seventeen come Sunday<br> 47. As I walked through the Meadows<br>
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  • Cecil Sharp's Note 76 (1916)
    ...65), and also of “Bibberly Town” (''Songs of the West'', No. 110, 2d ed.). I have only one other variant of this, from which, however, some of the lines
    441 bytes (77 words) - 21:59, 19 November 2018
  • HAM-05-32-21.abc
    W:For I never had but one true love & he was killed at sea<br> W:I'll buy me love a fine ship & a fine ship will I<br>
    2 KB (371 words) - 16:26, 21 November 2010
  • MTCD333 The Birds Upon the Tree
    ''[[I'll Sing of Martha]]'', [[Freda Palmer]], [[Roud 10560/2467]]<BR> ''[[When I Was a Boy]]'', [[George Fradley]], [[Roud 18305]]<BR>
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  • Cecil Sharp's Note 67 (1916)
    ...extension of the preceding song in which a third character is introduced. I have taken down four other versions, one of which is printed in the ''Journ
    498 bytes (87 words) - 21:05, 19 November 2018
  • Take 6 Transcription Programme: The Collinson Archive, Vol 1
    '''COL/1/3 I drew my ship unto a harbour'''
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  • Ambrose Cooper
    ...that’s a violin.’ But it got me interested in music. When I got old enough I got myself a guitar and used to listen to old Jimmie Rodgers’ records and :''“People take my stuff and say they’ve done it. I can’t read and write, so I’ve made a song up on a tape, played it to somebody and they’ve written
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  • Walter Bulwer
    ...d Edna Wortley. (Two tracks also available on Veteran cassettes: I Thought I Was the Only One: Dulcimer Players From England Veteran VTVS07/08'' * Scan Tester: I Never Played to Many Posh Dances, Topic LPs 12TS455/6 and Veteran cassettes
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  • Cecil Sharp's Note 01 (1916)
    ...(No. 53, 2d ed.); and in the ''Journal of the Folk-Song Society'' (volume i, p. 162). ...that the Percy version is the ballad “as recomposed in the reign of James I, when there was a perfect rage for re-writing the old historical ballads.�
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  • Cecil Sharp's Note (1916)
    ...(No. 53, 2d ed.); and in the ''Journal of the Folk-Song Society'' (volume i, p. 162). ...that the Percy version is the ballad “as recomposed in the reign of James I, when there was a perfect rage for re-writing the old historical ballads.�
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  • Cecil Sharp's Note 12 (1916)
    ...llected in Devonshire, is published in ''English Folk Songs for Schools''. I have collected only one other version, the first stanza of which runs thus: To the six verses which the singer sang to me I have added three others; two from the Devon version (with Mr. Baring-Gould�
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  • HAM-05-32-20.abc
    W:I am going to milk my father's cows down by the sheermount<br> W:In walking along by the side of her I stole a milking Kiss<br>
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  • HAM-05-32-23.abc
    T:As I was a-riding<br> T:As I Was A-Riding<br>
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  • 88 Bold Nelson's Praise
    I:linebreak $<br> w: Bold|Nel- son's praise I'm|go\- ing to sing,|(Not forg- gett\- ing our|glor- ious King), He|al- ways
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  • HAM-05-32-02.abc
    W:Your voice so loud I hear you there,<br> W:Oh! why may I go and court another,<br>
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  • Cecil Sharp's Note 16 (1916)
    The words of this ballad were sung to me to a very poor tune. I have, therefore, taken the liberty of mating them to a fine air which was s ...ause, you see, he had told his true-love to dress in green also;” and when I further inquired why he told her to do this, he said, “Because, of course
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  • Billy Bennington
    * Various artists, ''I Thought I Was The Only One'', Veteran VTVS07/08 - 10 tracks
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  • Alice Harden
    [[As I sat on a sunny bank]]
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  • Cecil Sharp's Note 96 (1916)
    ...“Three French Hens,” and, as this is the usual reading in printed copies, I have so given it in the text. “Britten Chains” may be a corruption of � ...the Nativity''), the first gift is “a partridge on a pear tree,” and this I have heard several times in country villages. One singer who gave it to me
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  • Cecil Sharp's Note 63 (1916)
    This is a very popular song in the West of England, but it has not, I believe, been found elsewhere. Similar words are in Sam Lover’s ''Rory O�
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  • Scan Tester
    ...ee Reg Hall’s wonderful book ''[[I Never Played to Many Posh Dances (book)|I Never Played to Many Posh Dances]]'' published by Musical Traditions, 1990. ...as an expanded and remastered CD'' - [http://www.topicrecords.co.uk/?p=832 I Never Played to Many Posh Dances] TSCD581D ''Transcriptions in ABC Notatio
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  • Cecil Sharp's Note 09 (1916)
    ...ngs and Carols'' (p. 32); and ''Journal of the Folk-Song Society'' (volume i, p. 164; volume ii, pp. 27 and 208; volume iii, p. 191). Buchan (''Ancient Ballads and Songs'', volume i, p. 133) prints a version, “Gight’s Lady,” and suggests that the ball
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  • Cecil Sharp's Note 27 (1916)
    ...ad Airs of Scotland'' and the ''Journal of the Folk-Song Society'' (volume i, p. 212; volume ii, p. 111; volume v, pp. 81–84). The ballad given here w
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  • Cecil Sharp's Note 88 (1916)
    This is the only version of this song that I know. The singer mixed his words in all the verses except the first one, ne
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  • GB-6a-6.abc
    T:As I Roamed Out Version 2 of 2<br> Q:Slower (i.e. than GB/6a/5)<br>
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  • Cecil Sharp's Note 61 (1916)
    No. 61. I’m Seventeen come Sunday ...r versions are printed in the ''Journal of the Folk-Song Society'' (volume i, p. 92; volume ii, pp. 9 and 269); Songs of the West (No. 73, 2d ed.); and
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  • Cecil Sharp's Note 28 (1916)
    ...e always spoken and never sung. This is the only instance of the kind that I have come across (see ''English Folk Song: Some Conclusions'', p. 6).
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  • Hartlake Bridge
    [[MTCD320 Here's Luck to a Man]] and [[A Story I'm Just About to Tell|Voice of the People Volume 8]] ...event. Although I had been told by older Gypsies that other verses exist, I was never able to find a complete version of the song. MacColl and Seeger
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  • Harry Baker
    ...sk him to repeat the tune of "Death and the Lady" a number of times before I was certain of having it down correctly."
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  • Cecil Sharp's Note 56 (1916)
    ...ety'' (volume ii, p. 25); ''Journal of the Irish Folk-Song Society'' (Part I, p. 10); and ''Folk Songs from Dorset'' (No. 6).
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  • Cecil Sharp's Note 05 (1916)
    The tune is in the Æolian mode. I have noted no less than eighteen variants.
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  • Cecil Sharp's Note 85 (1916)
    ...versions with tunes, see the ''Journal of the Folk-Song Society'' (volume i, pp. 75 and 260; volume ii, p. 263); Miss Mason's ''Nursery Rhymes and Coun
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  • HAM-05-32-17.abc
    T:As I was a wlking by Newgates one day<br> W:"As I was a walking by Newgates one day" see p. 43.<br>
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  • GILES,William Henry MS
    ...umbers continue on each right-hand page. These numbers seem consistent, so I cite them in the ABC file. There is no date associated with the Pether inscription, and I have not established any connection between the Pether/Shaylor family and t
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  • English County Songs
    [[As I rode over yonder forest green]] [[As I sat on a Sunny Bank]]
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  • GB-6a-5.abc
    T:GB/6a/5 As I Roved Out Version 1 of 2<br>
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  • 117: A Gest of Robyn Hode
    ...some portions of the story may have been of the compiler's own invention.' I would suggest that this last proposal is highly likely. The ballad does not
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  • John Moore of Tyneside Ms
    * I Lie Wee My Mammy Nee Mair * I'll Gang Nae Mair to Yon Town
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  • Sally Sloane
    * [[If I was a Blackbird]] * [[I've Been a Wild Boy]]
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  • Cecil Sharp's Note 99 (1916)
    I have a large number of variants of this song, which used to be in great req
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  • Cecil Sharp's Note 25 (1916)
    ...versions with tunes, see the ''Journal of the Folk-Song Society'' (volume i, p. 214; volume ii, pp. 44, 95, 206, and 274); ''Songs of the West'' (No. 4
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  • Cecil Sharp's Note 78 (1916)
    ...d tunes at the commencement, and at the end, of the acts of early dramas. “I cannot eat” has been called “the first drinking-song of any merit in ou ...the work of a literary man than are the verses—apart from the refrain—of “I cannot eat.”
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  • Full English Transcription Programme: The Lucy Broadwood Manuscript Collection, MS LEB/2/68
    '''LEB/2/68/3 I Courted A Bonny Lass'''
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  • Cecil Sharp's Note 35 (1916)
    I have taken down fifteen different versions of this song, but the tune given
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  • George Spicer
    ...nate most pub sing-songs ...&nbsp; much to the annoyance of other singers, I gather.’ This was so marked that Brian only heard his son [[Ron Spicer]] ...12T235), 1974, and could be heard on tracks of several others: he sang ''I Wish there was no Prisons'' on the EP ''Four Sussex Singers'' (Collector LEB 7),
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  • HAM-05-32-18.abc
    W:"I will name it" said she "I will name it for his sake<br>
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  • Johnson, John
    ...me Christian name holding the shop, or from the retention of the old name, I am unable to say, but John Johnson for the second time remains on the impri ...e number 10, Cheapside, though there is no mention of the Harp and Crown ; I cannot trace any of her issues later than 1771. F.Kidson</blockquote>
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  • Cecil Sharp's Note 37 (1916)
    ...ole Bay.” In both the other versions above cited, and in another one which I have published (''Folk Songs from Various Counties'', No. 8), the scene is
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  • Folkestone Murder, The
    ...alone.<br />You'd better take your sister to go along with you,<br />Then I have no objection, dear daughter, you may go." <br /><br /> ...ar Caroline, your blood my hands have stained.<br />No more on earth shall I see you ,but in heaven we'll meet again." <br /><br />
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  • Charlie Bridger
    ...Maidens a-Milking Did Go]] "I learnt that off an old man, old Billy King. I gave him a pint of beer. And you got it for nothing - 4d, that was a lot of ...worked for most of his life at a near-by stone quarry and I am sorry that I only managed to see him on one occasion.'
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  • 5-32-01.abc
    T:One Night As I Lay On My Bed<br> T:One Night As I Lay On My Bed<br>
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  • HAM-05-32-24.abc
    W:Oh! master, I should wonder much at you<br> W:Oh! Master, I wont trust you nor love you<br>
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  • Cecil Sharp's Note 98 (1916)
    ...' (volume iii, p. 277); ''Journal of the Welsh Folk-Song Society'' (volume i, p. 40); and ''Folk-Songs from Somerset'' (No. 93).
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  • Jinky Wells
    * ''Banbury Hill'' - First I'm Going To Sing You A Ditty (Rural Fun & Frolics) ‎(CD, Album, Comp) Topi
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  • Cecil Sharp's Note 97 (1916)
    ...can do little more than guess at their original meaning. The variants that I have recovered in Somerset are as follows: Who knoweth one? I, saith Israel, know one: One is God, who is over heaven and earth. <br>
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  • TITLEY,William MS
    ...f music (''Ed. See PDFs'') are a complete copy of a manuscript book, which I was given by my late uncle Mr Joe Evans of Bromstead near Newport, Shropshi ...e been uncommon at the time and indicates the level of his musical talent. I have been told that he played the piccolo and may have also played the flut
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  • Preston and Son
    ...Acre, as musical instrument maker, and possibly as music publisher, though I have as yet found no music bearing this address on the imprint. In 1776, he Other more important works were Bunting's " Ancient Irish Music," vol. i (1796)-the original publication, freely pirated by Irish music printers. "T
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  • Cecil J. Sharp (1916) ''One Hundred English Folk Songs''
    '''[[53a As I walked through the meadows. (''First Version'')]]''' '''[[53b As I walked through the meadows. (''Second Version'')]]'''
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  • Fred Whiting
    ...n a Sunday afternoon. I got 7 bob a week and I paid 6 bob a week board, so I had a shilling a week for myself. ...keys in it went wrong and I'd watched an old fella tune a harmonium up, so I took the outside cases off this mouth-organ. Tuned it up again, and
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  • William McGibbon, Collection 1760 index
    Peggy I must love the [sic: thee] 2 O dear mother what shall I doe [sic] 11
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  • Cecil Sharp's Note 81 (1916)
    I have taken down four versions, the tunes of which, with the exception of th
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  • HAM-05-32-11.abc
    W:{I have added the xs and the AB to mark variants; the separate A and B are Ham W:[below the these, near the centre:] Same song I think as Lemanday [unreadable] then [possibly] Baring Gould's <br>
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  • Songs of Courtship (The Folk Songs of Britain)
    #[[As I Roved Out]] - [[Seamus Ennis]] #[[I’m A Young Bonnie Lassie]] - [[Blanche Wood]]
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  • Ned Pearson
    Various - First I'm Going To Sing You A Ditty (Rural Fun & Frolics) ‎(CD, Album, Comp) Topi
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  • Full English Transcription Programme: The Vaughan Williams Archive at the British Library, MS RVW2/1 Part 3
    I:linebreak $<br> I:linebreak $<br>
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  • William Hedges
    ''The Broken Hearted Gentleman (I Kept a Pack of Hounds)'' (Roud 383)<BR> ''I Followed Her* (Going to Chelsea to Buy a Bun)'' (Roud 946)<BR>
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  • Charles Barling
    *[[Kind Sir I am too young]] ([[Roud 564]]) - tune and first verse
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  • HAM-5-32-16.abc
    W:Oh William, dearest William I am with child by thee<br> W:I cant no more admire your sweet and handsome face<br>
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  • Minty, Levi, & Jasper Smith
    Various - A Story I'm Just About To Tell. Local Events & National Issues. ‎(CD, Album, Comp)
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  • Cecil Sharp's Note 04 (1916)
    ...d interesting manner (see ''English Folk Song: Some Conclusions'', p. 21). I have chosen from these variations those which seemed to me to be the most c ...collected are printed in the ''Journal of the Folk-Song Society'' (volume i, pp. 144 and 247; volume ii, p. 155; volume iii, pp. 61 and 268; and volume
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  • LITTEN, William MS
    * I Am a Brisk and Sprightly Lad * Since Then I'm Doomed
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  • HAM-05-32-05.abc
    W:That I might have had my will<br> W:the time effect here. After hearing song twice I think the best solution is as under (H.E.D.H.).<br>
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  • Cecil Sharp's Note 55 (1916)
    ...ear 1792.” The words have been compiled from several traditional sets that I have collected.
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  • Cecil Sharp's Note 52 (1916)
    ...versions with tunes, see the ''Journal of the Folk-Song Society'' (volume i, pp. 17 and 274; volume ii, p. 82; volume iii, p. 85); ''Songs of the West'
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  • HAM-05-33-01.abc
    W:Madam your offer I dont approve<br> W:And I'll not venture for your love<br>
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  • Frances Baker
    :"His wife also knows folk-songs and I got the following songs from her : "The oyster girl", "The bold fisherman"
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  • Cecil Sharp's Note 74 (1916)
    ...ords have been supplemented from those of other traditional versions which I have collected.
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  • Ashover Ms
    collections of the period, which I have not attempted to reproduce. dances, who's faithfulness to the original I am not qualified.. etc, etc.
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  • Full English Transcription Programme: The Vaughan Williams Archive at the British Library, MS RVW2/3
    '''RVW2/3/9 I Married A Wife''' '''RVW2/3/10i The Farmer's Boy (i)'''
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  • Thomas Lanchbury
    ...I have been unable to identify so far) collected four of the songs, which I have identified with an asterisk.
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  • Take 6 Transcription Programme: The Butterworth Archive, MS 7c
    I:linebreak $<br> I:linebreak $<br>
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  • Full English Transcription Programme: The Lucy Broadwood Manuscript Collection, MS LEB/2/65
    '''LEB/2/65/3 I Wish My Baby It Was Born'''
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  • 35 The Cuckoo
    I:linebreak $
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  • Cecil J. Sharp and Charles L. Marson (1904) ''Folk Songs From Somerset Volume 1''
    13. As I walked through the Meadows<br>
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  • Fred Jordan
    ...delight audiences throughout the length and breadth of the country.&nbsp; I first recorded Fred at his home in 1965.&nbsp; Some of these recordings, to
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  • Cecil Sharp's Note 02 (1916)
    The words of both the versions that I have collected were very corrupt, so that the lines given in the text have
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  • As Shepherds watched their fleecy care
    ...care, <br />An heavenly Angel did appear, <br />Shepherds! Attend! To you I bring, <br />Glad tidings of a New-born King, <br />Glad tidings of a New-b
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  • Take 6 Transcription Programme: The Butterworth Archive, MS 7d
    I:linebreak $<br> I:linebreak $<br>
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  • Double Lead Through
    This was originally a song, 'Légende de la Mère Angot', from Act I of the three act opéra-comique 'La fille de Madame Angot', written by Fren
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  • MTCD339-0 A Story to Tell: Keith Summers in Suffolk 1972-9
    ''[[The Ship I Love]]'', [[Fred 'Pip' Whiting]], [[Roud 17057]]<BR> ''[[I'm a Man you don't Meet Every Day]]'', [[Alec Bloomfield]], [[Roud 975)]]<BR
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  • Come All my Lads that Follow the Plough
    *Track 12 - [[Davie Stewart]] - [[I Am A Miller to My Trade]]
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  • Songs of Ceremony (The Folk Songs of Britain)
    #[[As I Sat on a Sunny Bank]] - [[John Thomas]], Camborne, [[Cornwall]]
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  • Cecil Sharp's Note 95 (1916)
    I have collected several variants of “The Sweet Nightingale,” and the sin
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  • HAM-05-32-29.abc
    W:That's you & I'll be joined together<br> W:And along with you I will take my rest<br>
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  • Penguin Book of English Folk Songs
    [[I Wish, I Wish]] ([[Roud 495]]) [[One Night As I Lay on My Bed]] ([[Roud 672]])
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  • Miss Broadwood's Delight
    '''''Miss Broadwood's Delight'': Song No. 5 I Must Live All Alone''' [[Media:1908 05 I Must Live All Alone.pdf]]
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  • Take 6 Transcription Programme: The Butterworth Archive, MS 7b
    I:linebreak $<br> I:linebreak $<br>
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  • Take 6 Transcription Programme: The Butterworth Archive, MS 7e
    I:linebreak $<br> I:linebreak $<br>
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  • Full English Transcription Programme: The Lucy Broadwood Manuscript Collection, MS LEB/2/72
    '''LEB/2/72/13 Fayther And I'''
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  • C S Neal
    |Song - carol; 3 stanzas - "I saw three ships come sailing in" ...- singing game; 4 stanzas; 3 lines game description - "My mother said that I never should"<BR>
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  • Cecil Sharp's Note 17 (1916)
    ...er of this version sang them, with the exception of the last stanza, which I have borrowed from a variant collected elsewhere. For other versions with t
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  • Take 6 Transcription Programme: The Butterworth Archive, MS 7a
    I:linebreak $<br> I:linebreak $<br>
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  • Dorian/Aeolian Gapped Scales and Hybrids
    '''As I Roamed Out''' (GB/6a/5)
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  • John Simpson
    Joseph Hare died in July 1733, and the first notice I ([[Frank Kidson|Kidson]]) can find of Simpson is the half erased imprint on
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  • Books, Articles, and Academic Studies - Music
    ...c. These include books, articles, and academic theses, which I will add as I become aware of them. Hall, Reg; ''I Never Played to Many Posh Dances''; Major work on English Dance music, avai
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  • Sweet Sussex
    '''''Sweet Sussex'': Song No. 24 I've been to France and ...Dover'''
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  • Cecil Sharp's Note 21 (1916)
    ...btedly traditional, but some of the later ones (omitted in the text) were, I suspect, added by a recent member of the singer’s family, or, possibly, d
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  • Aeolian
    '''As I Roamed Out''' (GB/6a/5)
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  • George Gardiner
    ...jpg|left|Dr George Gardiner: photograph reproduced from Folk Music Journal I (3) 1967]]'''George Barnet Gardiner''', Scottish folk-song collector, c.185 ...ster, but he alternated this with collecting in Lyndhurst and Southampton. I think that he made much use of the railway. There is a note to remind himse
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  • Music
    ...it doesn't work you may find it via the Gateshead Libraries website, which I won't link because that keeps changing too. ...ers' own websites. These websites come and go so some links may be broken. I have resisted the sometimes strong urge to comment on how up-to-date or not
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  • Hammond Folder 32
    ====HAM/5/32/1 One Night As I Lay On My Bed====
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  • Full English Transcription Programme: The Vaughan Williams Archive at the British Library, MS RVW2/2
    '''RVW2/2/38 I Am A Rover''' '''RVW2/2/49 I Am A Stranger'''
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  • Thomas Sands Ms
    I will Gang no more to yon town (TS007) No.23 I'll be Marri'd on Tuesday (TS034)
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  • J.A.May Selection, Contents
    *I'll never leave thee 85 *The last time I came o'er the muir 86
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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 taken it down at least twenty times.
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  • HAM-05-32-30.abc
    W:I gave him unto thee to make thy heart glad<br>
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  • English Traditional Players
    ...player come to be regarded as a traditional source player? For the present I am trying to stick to people who were born pre-WW2 and not worrying over it
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  • Take 6 Transcription Programme: The Butterworth Archive, MS 6b
    W: I'll tell you how young Phoebe<br> W: have I spent in courting,<br>
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  • Lemmie Brazil
    Lemmie said &quot;I've been to every town in Ireland.&nbsp; We used to stop for a week, sometim
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  • John Thomas
    Air by Mr Handel I & II Berkshire Jockey [ Y Gwr a'I Farch / Horse & Jockey]
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  • William Clark Ms
    (When I followed a lass that was forward and shy) ([[WCL055]])
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  • Voice of the People Performer Index
    [[Will Atkinson]] - [[Tell Her I Am]] / [[Teviot Brig]] - [[Troubles They Are But Few|Volume 14]] Track [[Stephen Baldwin]] - [[The Girl I Left Behind Me]] - [[You Lazy Lot of Bone - Shakers|Volume 16]] Track
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  • Full English Transcription Programme: The Vaughan Williams Archive at the British Library, MS RVW2/1
    I:linebreak $<br> I:linebreak $<br>
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  • Full English Transcription Programme: The Vaughan Williams Archive at the British Library, MS RVW2/1 Part 2
    I:linebreak $<br> I:linebreak $<br>
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  • 93 Rosebud in June
    I:linebreak $<br>
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  • May Bradley
    *Various artists, Voice of the People [[A Story I'm Just About to Tell|Volume 8]] Track 22: [[Calvery]]
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  • Cecil Sharp
    ...nd pauses, its unexpected cadences, its curious melancholy. Magic, surely! I can just begin to understand shorthand, but not this mystery. During the fi
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  • Northumberland
    ...such as ''Blow the Wind Southerly, Captain Bover, Derwentwater’s Farewell, I Drew My Ship, The Fair Flower of Northumberland,'' and ''The Oak and the As
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  • Thomas Cahusac
    ...ded to be part of a larger work, in simlar manner to Johnson's etc., which I have so far been unable to trace. The same probably applies to the other bo
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  • West Gallery Music
    ...rred to as 'Georgian Psalmody' since it flourished in the reigns of George I to George IV.
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  • '''The Great Agricultural Depression c.1870-1914'''
    The great collectors before World War I were driven on by a sense of urgency. The members of the Folk Song Society I well remember various experiences in her company, and the fearful job we ha
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  • ANON MS(Rival Knights)
    I'll Make You be Fain .... 41
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  • 89 Spanish Ladies
    ...nor. The tune presents as A Aeolian, but with a key signature of A Dorian (i.e. if the missing Fs were presumed sharpened) the melody would be unchanged I:linebreak $<br>
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  • Walter Pardon
    ...t there, the two of us, him singing and me listening.&nbsp; And that’s how I got most of my songs.”''
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  • BARNES,Joseph MS
    * I will have a Wife of my Own. JBa.57 * I.m.w.t.Fiddle Says JBa.76
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  • Dance Bibliography
    * '''''The Country Dance Book Books I-VI''''', Cecil J Sharp, 1909 - 22, Novello, London
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  • IRWIN,William
    ...second “Billey Pitt”, third “Flowers Of Edinburgh” called a “Duble Reel”. “I’ll go no more to yon town”, Green sleaves”[really Rushes O] '''Hungarian Waltz'''(when I was a Lady)(see the simpler form in MS 42)
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  • Stephen Baldwin
    * Here's One You'll Like, I Think - Traditional Fiddle Music from the Forest of Dean - Stephen Baldwin
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  • Copper Family
    ...-Song Collector' in [[Journal of the Folk-Song Society]]. London: FSS, vol I no 1, 1899, 7-25.
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  • Take 6 Transcription Programme: The Butterworth Archive, MS 6a
    '''GB/6a/5 As I Roamed Out Version 1 of 2''' T:GB/6a/5 As I Roved Out Version 1 of 2<br>
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  • Peter Kennedy
    Kennedy was one of the presenters of the BBC folk music programme ''As I Roved Out'', broadcast during the 1950s, which featured field recordings of
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  • HARRISON,Rev. Robt. MS
    * 20 I'll never Leave Thee Laddie D * 52 I can no longer Stifle G
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  • Song Books
    * ''[[I'm A Freeborn Man]]'', [[Ewan MacColl]] and [[Peggy Seeger]], 1968, Oak Publ
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  • Index to Thompson's 200 Series
    * [[Because I was a bonny Lad]] 169-V1 * [[O the Days when I was young]] 97-V4
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  • Leader Records
    [[LER 2026]] [[Robin and Barry Dransfield]] Lord Of All I Behold
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  • Joseph Taylor
    25. When I Was Young and in my Youthful days (P) Roud 383
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  • Joshua Gibbons
    35.Vergins Wish, The JGi.035 76.Now Hungary Waltz as I got it JGi.076
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  • GIBBONS,Joshua MS,
    35.Vergins Wish, The JGi.035 76.Now Hungary Waltz as I got it JGi.076
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  • Scales and Musical Modes in Celtic, Anglo-American and English Folk Songs
    ...he interval between its first and its third notes is one and a half tones (i.e. three semitones). Thus, the Dorian, Aeolian, Phrygian and Locrian scales ...the mode, it is worth noting that they always (and only) occur after the -i words, shown emphasised here: "do, re, '''mi''', fa, so, la, '''ti''', do".
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  • List of historical tunebooks, some of which are available on the internet
    Since I compiled this list some years ago some links may have expired, but since th ...rts - first, second, & bass, for the Flute, Violin, Clarionett, Bass-Viol [i.e. Cello or Double Bass - not gamba viol], &c. Also, several New and Popula
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  • Books published since about 1900 containing mainly tunes from the English repertoire
    * Billy Pigg: The Border Minstrel, Part I: Billy's compositions; Ross, Colin & Julia Say; Newcastle upon Tyne; [http: ...or Northumbrian Pipes and other instruments, arranged by Derek Hobbs. Book I contains easy tunes playable on the plain chanter, to be played with second
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  • Francis Jekyll
    ...th century. The Roud database records more than thirty items from printed (i.e. non-manuscript) sources that were wholly or partly collected by Francis ''I am sure that there was an initial nervous breakdown which must have led to
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  • Tune Manuscripts List
    ...nt of funding, resulting in a very significant digitisation project, which I have yet to incorporate into this list as it's not the simple matter it sho * BROOKE, Arthur , early 19thC. I have rumour of a MS belonging to this gent, possibly the one who in his you
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  • Playford Vol.1 ABCs
    T:Faine I Would(If I Could). (p)1651.PLFD1.024 T:Once I Loved A Maiden Fair. (p)1651.PLFD1.074
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