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Thread #162666   Message #3899183
Posted By: Steve Gardham
12-Jan-18 - 04:52 PM
Thread Name: New Book: Folk Song in England
Subject: RE: New Book: Folk Song in England
17 The Crafty Maid's Policy
19 The Pretty Chambermaid
24 Improbablility (Then my love and I will be married)
27 The Dumb Wife
32 The Gypsy Laddie
36 The Bold Astrologer
50 The Sheep Shearers
53 Fox Hunting Song (Most gentlemen take delight)
55 Dicky Milburn
59 kelly the Pirate
61 Georgy (Child Ballad|)
62 The Bold Prisoner (Child ballad)
70 The Deserter
82 the Bonny Bunch of Roses-o
92 The Old Woman of Rumford
123 The Tailor in a Hobble

That's 23 so 50 altogether. My first estimate was rather modest. There are probably a dozen more if I checked carefully, and again in volume 2 some eminently singable songs that didn't stay in oral tradition long enough to be collected.