Which suggests that Malcolm must be irritated with me for asking in the first place, for which I am sorry. I am not so stupid as to think that every folk song must be on the web, and I am well aware that the resources that are available online don't get there by magic. I was simply looking for information and hoping (with justification as it turned out) that somebody on Mudcat might be able to point me in the direction of a source. The fact is that there are a few thousand miles between me and the Bodleian and the chances of me getting my hands on the back issues of the Journal of the Folk Song Society are somewhere between slim and nil.

Thanks for the link to the Broadside Ballad collection, which I have bookmarked. I will now be able to check there first the next time I want to look up a ballad, before asking for help on Mudcat.

Edmund