One Hundred English Folksongs

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One Hundred
English Folksongs

Edited by Cecil J. Sharp

For Medium Voice

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Boston: Oliver Ditson Company
New York: Chas. H. Ditson & Co., Chicago: Lyon & Healy

[Price: Paper, $1.50; Cloth, $2.50]

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Copyright, 1916, by Oliver Ditson Company
International Copyright Secured

D. S. Updike, The Merrymount Press, Boston

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To
Mrs. James Jackson Storrow

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Contents
Introductory Material (not listed in original) Page
Index xi
Preface xiii
Notes on the Songs xvii
Ballads
1. Henry Martin 1
2. Bruton Town 4
3. The Knight and the Shepherd’s Daughter 6
4. Robin Hood and the Tanner 8
5. The Wraggle Taggle Gipsies, O! 13
6. Lord Bateman 17
7. Barbara Ellen 20
8. Little Sir Hugh 22
9. Geordie 24
10. Lady Maisry 26
11. The Outlandish Knight 29
12. The Coasts of High Barbary 32
13. The Cruel Mother 35
14. The Golden Vanity 36
15. Lord Thomas of Winesberry 38
16. The Green Wedding 40
17. The Briery Bush 42
18. Lord Rendal 44
19. Blow away the Morning Dew 46
20. The Two Magicians 48
21. The Duke of Bedford 50
22. Death and the Lady 52
23. The Low, Low Lands of Holland 54
24. The Unquiet Grave, or Cold blows the wind 56
25. The trees they do grow high 58
26. Lord Lovel 60
27. False Lamkin 62
28. Lord Thomas and Fair Ellinor 65
29. The Death of Queen Jane 68
Songs
30. Farewell, Nancy 70
31. Sweet Kitty 72
32. The Crystal Spring 74
33. The Seeds of Love 76
34. The Sprig of Thyme 79
35. The Cuckoo 82
36. Blackbirds and Thrushes 84
37. The Drowned Lover 86
38. The Sign of the Bonny Blue Bell 88
39. O Waly, Waly 90
40. Green Bushes 92
41. Bedlam 94
42. The Bold Fisherman 96
43. The Rambling Sailor 98
44. Dabbling in the Dew 100
45. The Saucy Sailor 102 ​
46. Fanny Blair 104
47. Arise, arise 106
48. Searching for Lambs 108
49. Green Broom 110
50. The Bonny Lighter-Boy 112
51. The Sweet Priméroses 114
52. My Bonny, Bonny Boy 116
53a. As I walked through the meadows. (First Version) 120
53b. As I walked through the meadows. (Second Version) 122
54. Erin’s Lovely Home 124
55. The True Lover’s Farewell 126
56. High Germany 127
57. Sweet Lovely Joan 130
58. My Boy Willie 132
59. Whistle, Daughter, Whistle 134
60. Mowing the Barley 136
61. I’m Seventeen come Sunday 138
62. The Lark in the Morn 141
63. Hares on the Mountains 142
64. O Sally, my dear 144
65. Gently, Johnny, my Jingalo 146
66. The Keys of Canterbury 148
67. My Man John 150
68. O No, John! 154
69. The Brisk Young Bachelor 156
70. Ruggleton’s Daughter of Iero 158
71. William Taylor 160
72. Sweet William 162
73. The Watchet Sailor 164
74. Scarborough Fair 167
75. Brimbledon Fair, or Young Ramble-Away 170
76. Bridgwater Fair 172
77. The Crabfish 174
78. The Beggar 176
79. The Keeper 178
80. The Three Sons 180
81. Jack Hall 182
82. Driving away at the Smoothing Iron 184
83. The Robber 187
84. John Barleycorn 190
85. Poor Old Horse 196
86. Botany Bay 198
87. Admiral Benbow 200
88. Bold Nelson’s Praise 202
89. Spanish Ladies 205
90. The Ship in Distress 208
91. Come all you worthy Christian men 212
92. Wassail Song 214
93. It’s a rosebud in June 217 ​
94. A Brisk Young Sailor 220
95. The Sheep-Shearing 222
Accumulative
96. The Twelve Days of Christmas 224
97. The Ten Commandments 226
98. The Tree in the Wood 230
99. The Barley-Mow 232
100. One man shall mow my meadow 235

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Signature of Cecil J. Sharp.

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