Just uploaded our version of Child #102 - Willie & Earl Richard's Daughter (aka The Birth of Robin Hood) onto our myspace page - www.myspace.com/venereumarvum. This is the Lily Flower Mix, as featured on the download component of John Barleycorn Reborn (2006) - essentially an alternative ambient version of that featured on the CD itself. It's the same vocal track - Rachel & I singing live over drones on our Indian harmonium and old Weltmiester respectively - with an ambient track (realised by looping samples from the vocal track) in place of the other instruments.

I first came across this ballad in Rhymes of Robin Hood (Dobson & Taylor, Sutton 1976) in 1990 and being without a melody I set it to the melody of the Balladelle Bergeronnette Douce Baisselete by Northern French trouvere Adam de la Halle (1237-86) from his Le Jeu de Robin et Marion which, whilst not concerning Robin Hood per se, nevertheless prefigures much that we have come to associate with the legend and sets this off just perfectly. Rachel added her harmony part back in 2002 since which time we've developed a number of approaches, of which this one seems to be pretty definitive.