It weren't me stole your book Eric, but I do have a copy of ' Martin Carthy, A Guitar In Folk Music '.

The only choons in it on s6k's list are Sovay, Lovely Joan and Scaborough Fair.

The suggested tuning for Lovely Joan is C G C D G A, and suggested chords 'harmonic clues, not to be followed slavishly' go as follows:

G9          C             G
A fine young man it was indeed,
       G7          C             G      
He was mounted on his milk white steed,
    G9          C       G          C
He rode, and he rode, he rode all alone,
G7       C      Csus   G
Until he came to lovely Joan.

The tuning for Sovay is given as D A D C# A C#, but no chords are given.

s6k says he has the chords for Scarborough Fair, but briefly, for the rest of us, the sequence given is:

D9/sus C         G          D9
Are you going to Scarborough Fair?
C       D9      C         D9
Parsley, Sage Rosemary and Thyme;
         C    D9             G   
Remember me to one who lives there,
D9       G    C   G    C   D9/sus4
For once she was a true love of mine

For D9/sus in the given tuning, you hold down string 4 at fret 4, and string 2 at fret 3, it says.

Only a few of the songs in the book have chords suggested - Martin was worried about creating too many 'Carthy Clones' - as if!

LFF