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One hundred English folksongs

Call Number

  • R 784.4 S53 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Boston, Oliver Ditson [c1916]

Physical Description

xlv p., 1 l., 235 p. 32 cm.

Contents

  • Henry Martin
  • Bruton Town
  • The knight and the shepherd's daughter
  • Robin Hood and the tanner
  • The wraggle taggle gipsies, O!
  • Lord Bateman
  • Barbara Ellen
  • Little Sir Hugh
  • Geordie
  • Lady Maisry
  • The outlandish knight
  • The coasts of High Barbary
  • The cruel mother
  • The golden vanity
  • Lord Thomas of Winesberry
  • The green wedding
  • The briery bush
  • Lord Rendal
  • Blow away the morning dew
  • The two magicians
  • The Duke of Bedford
  • Death and the lady
  • The low, low lands of Holland
  • The unquiet grave, or cold blows the wind
  • The trees they do grow high
  • Lord Lovel
  • False Lamkin
  • Lord Thomas and Fair Ellinor
  • The death of Queen Jane
  • Farewell, Nancy
  • Sweet Kitty
  • The crystal spring
  • The seeds of love
  • The sprig of thyme
  • The cuckoo
  • Blackbirds and thrushes
  • The drowned lover
  • The sign of the bonny blue bell
  • O waly, waly
  • Green bushes
  • Bedlam
  • The bold fisherman
  • The rambling sailor.
  • (Con't.) Dabbling in the dew
  • The saucy sailor
  • Fanny Blair
  • Arise, arise
  • Searching for lambs
  • Greem broom
  • The bonny lighter-boy
  • The sweet priméroses
  • My bonny, bonny boy
  • As I walked through the meadows
  • Erin's lovely home
  • The true lover's farewell
  • High Germany
  • Sweet lovely Joan
  • My boy Willie
  • Whistle, daughter, whistle
  • Mowing the barley
  • I'm seventeen come Sunday
  • The lark in the morn
  • Hares on the mountains
  • O Sally, my dear
  • Gently, Johnny, my jingalo
  • The keys of Canterbury
  • My man John
  • O no, John!
  • The brisk young bachelor
  • Ruggleton's daughter of Iero
  • William Taylor
  • Sweet William
  • The watchet sailor
  • Scarborough Fair
  • Brimbledon Fair, or Young ramble-away
  • Bridgwater Fair
  • The crabfish
  • The beggar
  • The keeper
  • The three sons
  • Jack Hall
  • Driving away at the Smoothing Iron
  • The robber.
  • (Con't.) John Barleycorn
  • Poor old horse
  • Botany Bay
  • Admiral Benbow
  • Bold Nelson's praise
  • Spanish ladies
  • The ship in distress
  • Come all you worthy Christian men
  • Wassail song
  • It's a rosebud in June
  • A brisk young sailor
  • The sheep-shearing
  • The twelve days of Christmas
  • The ten commandments
  • The tree in the wood
  • The barley-mow
  • One man shall mow my meadow.