Suddenly everyone appears to be hunting Child (there's been a thread on this on r.m.f. recently. Frank - did you really mean Bronson's music to the Sharp collection, or to Child?? Anyone who's not checked this out needs to be warned that both the original Child "English and Scotish Popular Ballads" and the Dover re-print are WITHOUT TUNES (except for a very few, described as "less well known" or something, gathered as an appendix at the end of the collection). I THINK it was Bronson who published an extensive set of tunes to the Ballads, but that publication seems even harder to locate than the Child collection itself. And if you want to check out the Child books then any public library should be able to get hold of them . . given their second-hand cost that might be a wise precaution before purchasing. They are a "scholarly" work rather than a singers sourcebook . . (but no, our set's not up for sale).

G.