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Title The Oxford book of English traditional verse / chosen and edited by Frederick Woods
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1983

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Description xxvi, 397 pages ; 22 cm
Contents Christian and other festivals. The holy well -- The bitter withy -- God made a trance -- The seven virgins -- The leaves of life -- Dives and Lazarus -- Jacob's well -- Christchurch bells -- The man that lives -- Our saviour's love -- The dilly song -- The new dial -- Down in the forest -- The truth from above -- The moon shines bright -- The carnal and the crane -- The cherry-tree carol -- The virgin unspotted -- The holly and the ivy -- Christmas now is drawing near -- On Christmas day -- Softly the night -- New Year's carol -- May song -- May carol -- Thames Head wassailer's song -- Gloucestershire wassail -- Somerset wassail -- Apple wassail -- Bee wassail -- Souling song
Crime and punishment. Little Sir Hugh -- The outlandish knight -- Geordie -- Young Edwin in the Lowlands low -- The constant farmer's son -- Mary in the silvery tide -- Gilderoy -- Lambkin -- The cruel mother -- Henry my son -- Green and yellow -- The swan swims so bonny -- The execution of Luke Hutton -- Dick Turpin's ride -- Jack Hall -- The Sheffield apprentice -- The rambling boy -- Limbo -- Van Dieman's land (a) -- Van Dieman's land (b) -- The murder of Maria Marten -- Constance Kent -- Mary Arnold the female monster -- McCaffery
History for the people. Queen Eleanor's confession -- Robin Hood's progress to Nottingham -- Robin Hood's death -- Chevy Chase -- Henry V's conquest of France -- The Agincourt carol -- Six dukes went a-fishing -- The death of Queen Jane -- The young Earl of Essex's victory over the emperor of Germany -- Captain Ward and the rainbow -- George Ridler's oven -- The Duke of Marlborough -- Bold General Wolfe -- Under the rose -- Grand conversation on Brave Nelson -- Nelson's death -- Lamentation on the death of the Duke of Wellington -- Balaclava -- Grace darling
Seduction and betrayal. Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard -- Barbara Allen -- The carpenter's wife -- The wanton seed -- Rosemary Lane -- As I walked through the meadows -- I wish, I wish -- The Broomfield wager -- Blow away the morning dew -- Early in the springtime -- The buxom young dairy maid -- The buck's elegy -- The sailor cut down in his prime -- Died of love -- Down by the riverside -- Abroad as I was walking -- Love it is pleasing -- The mower -- Strawberry Fair -- The cuckoo (a) -- The cuckoo (b) -- The brickster -- Gently Johnny my jingalo -- Hares on the mountain -- The false bride -- The Leicester chambermaid -- In Oxford city -- The posy of thyme -- Saw you my father -- Bushes and briars -- The water is wide -- The new Bury loom
Soldiers and sailors. The Golden Vanity -- The female sailor -- Early, early in the spring -- Our captain cried all hands -- Adieu my lovely Nancy -- Our ship she lies in harbour -- The shepherdess and the sailor -- Just as the tide was a-flowing -- Pleasant and delightful -- William Taylor -- The saucy sailor -- Sweet William -- The Flying Cloud -- The Indian lass -- The Greenland whale fishery -- A British man-of-war -- Blooming Sally -- Jack Robinson -- Rude Boreas -- The Manchester ship canal -- The sound of the drum -- Bonnets so blue -- The trooper's horse -- The royal light dragoon -- A bold dragoon -- The bold dragoon -- High Germany -- Why, soldiers, why? -- Arthur McBride -- The recruiting sergeant -- The rambling soldier -- The girl I left behind -- The banks of the Nile -- The plains of Waterloo -- The recruited collier -- The orphan boy -- The old battalion
The country year. The cuckoo -- John Barleycorn -- What's the life of a man? -- A sweet country life -- The north country maid -- Lace tell -- A-begging buttermilk I will go -- The nobleman and the thresherman -- Good company -- How happy the man -- The beggar -- Now we've met -- The Dunmow flitch of bacon -- Ground for the floor -- Country statutes -- Country hirings -- The farmer's boy -- A Lincolnshire shepherd -- Sheep shearing -- All jolly fellows that follow the plough -- Once I was a shepherd boy -- The jolly waggoner -- The husbandman and the serving-man -- The carter -- The miller and his sons -- Poor old horse -- Bold Reynard the fox -- We'll all go a-hunting today -- The Nottingham poacher -- The three tall men -- The cock of the game -- Master McGrath -- The bullard's song -- When this old hat was new -- The new-fashioned farmer -- The cottager's complaint -- My master and I -- Pity poor labourers -- The labouring man -- The painful plough -- An old man's advice -- Adieu to Old England -- The English labourer -- The Owslebury lads
The joys of love. Lord Bateman -- The famous flower of serving-men -- Searching for lambs -- The banks of Claudy -- The only daughter -- The streams of lovely Nancy -- The rifles -- To milk in the valley below -- New garden fields -- Grandma's advice -- Blackberry fold -- The pride of Kildare -- My man John -- The sign of the bonny blue bell -- The green mossy banks of Lee -- The foggy dew (a) -- The foggy dew (b) -- Seventeen come Sunday -- A farmer's son so sweet -- William and Phyllis -- Locks and bolts -- Young Barnswell -- Billy boy -- Oh no John -- Arise and pick a posy -- Polly Oliver's rambles -- Johnny Sands -- The shepherd and shepherdess -- I know where I'm going -- Old Brown's daughter -- The bailiff's daughter of Islington -- The queen of hearts -- The three ravens -- Spencer the rover -- When Adam was first created -- The jolly shilling -- Nine times a night -- My old wife's a good old cratur -- Wedding song -- Dance to thee daddy
The pain of love. Lady Maisry -- Child Waters -- Lord Thomas and Fair Ellinor -- The gypsy countess -- Fair Margaret and Sweet William -- The brown girl -- The trees they do grow high -- Let the wind blow high or low -- My Johnny -- The grey cock -- The unquiet grave -- Picking lilies -- I live not where I love -- The willow tree -- Cupid the ploughboy -- Ellen Taylor -- Molly of the North Country -- The lamenting maid -- Arise, arise -- Whistle, daughter, whistle -- The seeds of love -- A brisk young widow -- The wandering shepherdess -- The betrayed maiden -- The blacksmith -- Love is teasing -- An old man he courted me -- An ape, lion, fox, and ass -- Come all you young ladies and gentlemen -- The shoemakker [i.e. shoemaker] -- A poor man's work is never done -- The fox and the hare -- Household remedies
The rise of industry. The poor man pays for all -- Poverty knock -- The poor cotton weaver -- The carpet-weaver's lament -- The weaver and the factory maid -- The jute mill song -- Funny rigs of good and tender-hearted masters -- General Ludd's triumph -- The cropper lads -- July wakes -- Brave collier lads -- The collier lad's lament -- Call the horse, marrow -- Fourpence a day -- The Oakey Stree evictions -- The Blantyre explosion -- The Trimdon Grange explosion -- The Gresford disaster -- The old miner -- The strike -- The colliers' march -- The collier's rant -- A miner's life -- Jowl, jowl, and listen -- The blackleg miner -- Striking times -- The Manchester ship canal -- The new navigation -- The Oxford and Hampton Railway -- The dalesman's litany -- The dandy horse -- My grandfather's days -- Humphrey Hardfeature's description of cast-iron inventions -- A new hunting song -- London adulterations -- How five and twenty shillings were expended in a week -- An appeal to unemployed ex-service men
Tradition in the making. Unaccompanied / Harvey Andrews -- Sweet loving friendship / Peter Bellamy -- Now I'm easy No man's land The band played Waltzing Matilda / Eric Bogle -- The first of my lovers Lord of the dance / Sydney Carter -- The wizard of Alderley Edge / Peter Coe -- Song for Ireland Blood on the sails / Phil and June Colclough -- Grey October / The Critics -- Mr. Gunman / Vin Garbutt -- The escalator Little Tommy Yesterday Hands / Alex Glasgow -- January man The long and lonely winter / Dave Goulder -- Christmas 1914 / Mike Harding -- Freeborn man The dove / Ewan MacColl -- First and last man / Ralph McTell -- Dancing at Whitsun / Austin John Marshall -- Palaces of gold / Leon Rosselson -- Sally free and easy On a Monday morning The Grey Funnel Line Reunion / Cyril Tawney -- Time Ballad for the unknown soldier Still he sings / Allan Taylor
Analysis Folk songs in English Words - Anthologies
Folk songs in English Words Texts
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Subject Ballads, English -- Texts.
Ballads, English -- England -- Texts.
Folk poetry, English.
Folk songs, English -- Texts.
Author Woods, Fred, 1932-1995.
LC no. 82014442
ISBN 0192141325