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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.