Annotation

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Annotation last modified on 2024-04-16 04:47 UTC.

Works

#WorkWritersArtistsISWCTypeLyrics languagesAttributesRating
1The Raggle Taggle Gypsy (aka The Raggle Taggle Gypsies O / The Gypsy Laddie / Black Jack Davy / Seven Yellow Gypsies)
Song
  • English
2The Unfortunate Lass (Bad Girl's Lament)
  • [traditional] (special purpose artist) (composer, lyricist, writer)
Song
  • English
3Sprig o’ Thyme (aka The Bunch of Thyme / The Seeds of Love)
Song
  • English
4Lord Thomas and Annet (aka Lord Thomas and Fair Ellender)
Song
  • English
5The Three Ravens (Child 26, Roud 5)
Song
  • English
  • Scots
6Lamkin (traditional ballad)
Song
  • English
7Sovay (aka Sylvia / Cecilia / The Female Highwayman)
Song
  • English
8The Two Sisters (aka The Wind and the Rain / The Bows of London / Cruel Sister)
Song
  • English
9The Cruel Mother (aka Greenwood Sidey / The Lady of York / Fine Flowers in the Valley)
Song
  • English
10Lord Randall (aka What Had You for Supper / Buried in Kilkenny / The Wild, Wild Berry)
Song
  • English
11The Baffled Knight
Song
  • English
12Scarborough Fair
Song
  • English
12The Elfin Knight (aka Scarborough Fair / Whittingham Fair / Rosemary Lane; title is easily confused with Child #4, check lyrics)
Song
  • Scots
13The Dowie Dens o Yarrow
Song
    14The Daemon Lover
    Song
    • English
    15Pretty Polly
    Song
    • English
    16Frog Went a-Courtin’ (Original version)
    Song
    • English
    17The Three Butchers
    Song
    • English
    18The Bramble Briar (aka Bruton Town / The Merchant's Daughter / The Murdered Servantman)
    Song
    • English
    19The Thresherman
    Song
    • English
    20The False Knight on the Road
    Song
    • English
    21The Outlandish Knight (title is easily confused with Child #2, check lyrics)
    Song
    • English
    22Gil Brenton
    Song
    • English
    23Earl Brand
    Song
    • English
    24Erlinton
    Song
    • English
    25The Fair Flower of Northumberland
    Song
    • English
    26The Cruel Brother (aka The Three Knights / The Rose and the Lily)
    Song
    • English
    27The Bonnie Banks of Fordie (aka Babylon)
    Song
    • English
    28Hind Horn
    Song
    • English
    29Bold Sir Rylas (aka Sir Lionel / Rackabello)
    Song
    • English
    30Willie's Lyke-Wake
    Song
    • Scots
    31The Trees They Grow So High (Original folksong)
    Song
    • English
    32Kempy Kay
    Song
    • English
    34Broomfield Hill (aka The Broomfield Wager / A Wager, A Wager)
    Song
    • English
    35Tam Lin
    Song
    • English
    36Captain Wedderburn's Courtship
    Song
    • Scots
    37Proud Lady Margaret
    Song
    • Scots
    38The Twa Brothers
    • [traditional] (special purpose artist) (composer, lyricist, writer)
    Song
    • English
    • Scots
    40Young Beichan
    Song
    • English
    41Sir Patrick Spens
    Song
    • English
    43Child Waters (Fair Ellen / Lady Margaret)
    Song
    • English
    45Lady Maisry
    Song
    • English
    47Young Hunting (aka Henry Lee / Love Henry / The Proud Girl / Earl Richard)
    Song
    • English
    48Lord Lovell
    Song
    • English
    49The Lass of Roch Royal
    Song
      50Sweet William’s Ghost (aka Lady Margaret)
      Song
      • English
      51The Unquiet Grave
      Song
      • English
      52Matty Groves
      Song
      • English
      54Barbara Allen
      Song
      • English
      56Young Johnson (Young Johnstone)
        60Died for Love
        Song
        • English
        64Willie of Winsbury
        Song
        • English
        67The Knight and the Shepherd's Daughter (Roud 67; Child 110)
        Song
        • English
        69Johnie Cock
        Song
        • Scots
        73Sir Hugh
        Song
        • English
        74Queen Eleanor's Confession
        Song
        • English
        79Mary Hamilton (child ballad 173)
        Song
        • English
        84Hughie Graeme
        Song
        • Scots
        87The Water Is Wide (18th Century shanty)
        Song
        • English
        90Geordie (aka Georgie)
        • [traditional] (special purpose artist) (composer, lyricist, writer)
        Song
        • English
        91Clyde's Water (aka The Mother's Malison / The Drowned Lovers)
        Song
        • English
        92The Broom o’ the Cowdenknowes (aka Bonny May)
        Song
        • Scots
        93Katherine Jafray
        Song
        • English
        95Glasgow Peggy
        Song
        • Scots
        97Richie Story
        Song
        • English
        99The Earl of Aboyne
        Song
        • Scots
        101Glenlogie
        Song
        • Scots
        102Annachie Gordon
        Song
        • English
        103The Rantin Laddie
        Song
        • Scots
        104Henry Martin
        Song
        • English
        114Our Goodman
        Song
        • English
        115Get Up and Bar the Door (aka The Barring of the Door / John Blunt)
        Song
          118The Jolly Beggarman
          Song
          • English
          120The Keach in the Creel
          Song
            122Golden Vanity
            Song
            • English
            124The Mermaid
            Song
            • English
            124The Mermaid
            Song
            • English
            126The Derby Ram
            Song
            • English
            127The Seven Virgins
            Song
            • English
            130Three Jolly Rogues of Lynn (King Arthur's Servants / Three Jolly Rogues of Lynn / Three Sons of Rogues)
            Song
            • English
            131The Fox (aka Daddy Fox / A Fox Jumped Up)
            • [traditional] (special purpose artist) (composer, lyricist, writer)
            Song
            • English
            133Children Go Where I Send Thee
            Song
            • English
            134High Barbary
            Song
            • English
            135Cold, Haily, Windy Night
            Song
            • English
            136Orfeo (aka King Orfeo / Young Orphy)
            Song
            • English
            137Widdicombe Fair (Devon folk song)
            Song
            • English
            138The Miller and His Sons (The Miller’s Three Sons / The Derby Miller)
            Song
              141The Golden Glove (aka The Squire of Tamworth)
              Song
              • English
              144The Maid Freed From the Gallows (traditional song - not the Led Zep arrangement)
              Song
              • English
              145Glasgerion
              Song
              • English
              148The Banks of the Sweet Dundee
              Song
              • English
              151The Lark in the Morning (Song: Oh the lark in the morning she rises from her nest)
              Song
              • English
              152Early, Early in the Spring
              Song
              • English
              154I Once Loved a Lass
              Song
              • English
              155Mary of the Wild Moor
              Song
              • English
              157Banks of the Ohio
              Song
              • English
              158William Taylor (aka Bold William Taylor)
              Song
              • English
              160The Devil and the Ploughman
              Song
              • English
              161The Three Sisters (aka Riddles Wisely Expounded / The Devil's Nine Questions / Juniper, Gentle and Rosemary / Bow Down to the Bonny Broom)
              Song
              • English
              162Trooper and the Maid
              Song

                Relationships

                subseries of:Folk Song Collections
                Wikidata:Q49679 [info]