Mick, thanks for the Jefferson materials. Here is my rendition of "Coffin's List", or the Child ballads found in America according to Tristram Potter Coffin/Roger deV. Renwick in THE BRITISH TRADITIONAL BALLAD [as of 1963] (1977 University of Texas Press). I have deleted those ballads which Coffin said were not to be found in the "oral tradition" in America, and I have placed a "?" before those that seem especially questionable according to Coffin. I have also added a few quotes from him here and there. I have placed brackets [] around those which did not show up on my survey of Child's material documented for the 1700s. The comparison of the "Coffin List" with the 1700s survey list may suggest that some of these citations need to be revisited. Please feel free to offer corrections. I have not tried to update the Coffin/deV. Renwick listing since 1963 yet. There may well be additions. I have not had time yet to consult either Richie's work or the materials sent to me pm by Mick Pearce. These may provide some additions to the "Coffin List". Coffin's List Riddles Wisely Expounded The Elfin Knight The False Knight on the Road Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight [Earl Brand] The Twa Sisters The Cruel Brother Lord Randal Edward Babylon or The Bonnie Banks o Fordie [Hind Horn] Sir Lionel The Cruel Mother St. Stephen and Herod ["There is little doubt that it (the Vermont text in Flanders) was learned from print." p. 46] [Bonnie Annie] ["...such fragments are too brief to prove much." p.46] The Three Ravens [The Whummil Bore] Thomas Rymer The Wee Wee Man [The Queen of Elfan's Nourice] Clerk Colvill [See discussion of "Lady Alice #85.] [The Broomfield Hill] [?]The Two Magicians] King John and the Bishop Captain Wedderburn's Courtship [The Twa Brothers] [Lizie Wan] [The King's Dochter Lady Jean] Young Beichan The Cherry-Tree Carol Dives and Lazarus Sir Patrick Spens Fair Annie Child Waters Lady Maisry Young Hunting Lord Thomas and Annet Fair Margaret and Sweet William Lord Lovel The Lass of Roch Royal Sweet William's Ghost The Unquiet Grave [The Wife of Usher's Well] Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard Child Maurice Bonny Barbara Allen [Lady Alice] [?]Young Benjie] [Prince Robert] Young Johnstone Jellon Grame [?]Bonny Bee Hom Lamkin The Maid Freed From the Gallows The Gay Goshawk Johnie Scott Willie o Winsberry Willie and Earl Richard's Daughter ["This text...was probably learned from Kittredge's edition of the Child ballads."] The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington The Famous Flower of Serving Men [from the BLACKBIRD SONGSTER?] The Knight and the Shepherd's Daughter The Baffled Knight/Blow Away the Morning Dew Johnie Cock Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne Robin Hood's Death Robin Hood and Little John Robin Hood and the Tanner Robin Hood and the Prince of Aragon ["The Maine version is obviously from print...."] The Bold Pedlar and Robin Hood ["printed in the American Songster in New York before 1850...."] Robin Hood and Allen a Dale ["Greenway believes she (Aunt Molly Jackson) learned it fromthe Kittredge on-volume edition of Child and then changed the text."] Robin Hood's Progress to Nottingham Robin Hood Rescuing Three Squires [American Songster] Robin Hood Rescuing Will Stutly [?]Robin Hood and the Bishop Sir Hugh, or the Jew's Daughter Queen Eleanor's Confession Gude Wallace The Hunting of the Cheviot King Henry Fifth's Conquest of France The Rose of England ["This is the only report of the song from modern oral tradition, and the chances are good the stanzas were learned from print."] Sir Andrew Bartin/Henry Martyn The Death of Queen Jane Mary Hamilton Northumberland Betrayed by Douglas Captain Car, or, Edom o Gordon The Bonnie Earl of Murray [Willie Macintosh ["...taken down from recitation and appears to be no longer sung in Maine."] Dick o the Cow Jock o the Side Archie o Cawfield Bonnie House o' Airlie The Gypsy Laddie Bessy Bell and Mary Gray Jamie Douglas [Lord Dernwentwater] Geordie Bonnie James Campbell The Braes o Yarrow Rare Willie Drowned in Yarrow, or, The Water o Gamrie The Broom of Cowdenknows [The False Lover Won Back] [Katherine Jafray] [Rob Roy] [Lizie Lindsay] [Glasgow Peggie] [Andrew Lammie] The Laird o Drum The Rantin Laddie James Harris, (The Daemon Lover) The Grey Cock, or, Saw You My Father John Thomson and the Turk The Heir of Linne The Suffolk Miracle Our Goodman Get Up and Bar the Door The Wife Wrapt in Wether's Skin [The Farmer's Curst Wife] The Jolly Beggar [The Keach I the Creel] The Crafty Farmer The George Aloe and the Sweepstake The Sweet Trinity (The Golden Vanity) Captain Ward and the Rainbow The Mermaid John of Hazelgreen [The Brown Girl] [The Trooper and Maid]
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