TWICE I have recorded that fine ballad called "ROBIN HOOD'S DEATH" ----- Child #120

The first time was on my second LP for Kicking Mule Records KM-148 Art Thieme---Songs Of The Heartland

The other time was when I put it on my 1998 CD called "Art Thieme---THE OLDER I GET, THE BETTER I WAS!" That is on Andrew Calhoun's label--Waterbug Records --- can be found at
      www.waterbug.com

Strangely, I found 2 verses of this Child ballad of Robin Hood right in the middle of the USA -- in the state of Wisconsin. Wes Asbury, a retired, and curmudgeonly former police chief of Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin knew TWO VERSES of it. That got me to thinking about it---and I fleshed it out from printed versions I found. The tune I used was a great and beautiful one that Mudcatter and former Weaver, Frank Hamilton, had used with his Folkways Records recording of the ballad "GEORDY"!! --- Arguably, the "DEATH OF ROBIN HOOD" is the last of all of the many ballads and songs about Robin because it was in this one that he met his final demise.

Art Thieme