To Fred M. - Any suggestions you might have for getting it across the water would be most welcome- perhaps a distributor of this kind of material. I'll ask some other ballad friends as well- Alison MacMorland may have some ideas.

Re: Barbara Allen does not appear as one of the ballads, but (my) Fred remembers seeing it in the appendix . In the previous volume (British Ballads from Maine published in 1929, there is a whole discussion of the song starting page 195. The older book is out of print and hard to find, but perhaps you could get it through inter-library loan. I'm leaning on the U of Maine to reprint it. They need to see sufficient interest before they pursue the idea.

Here's a list of the songs in the new book- there are multiple versions of most of the songs

Laird o' Kelsie-O
Fair Maid on the Shore
The Bold Fisherman
Fair Molly Bawn
Willie Leonard
Sons of North Britain
Young But Growing
Johb o' German
William Taylor
Reynardine
The Lion's Den
Lovely Susan
Lexington Miller
The Banks of Old Bardine
Young Edwin in the Lowlands
The Green Bed
The Lady in the West
Lovely Jimmy
Fair Betsy
The Charming Footboy
The Damsel's Tragedy
John Glengyle
The Constant Farmer's Son
The Boatswain's Honest Wife
Kate and Her Horns
Father Grumble
Te Factor's Garland