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BABES IN THE WOOD, THE - "O don't you remember a long time ago?" "Now ponder well you parents dear" - LAWS: Q34 (p29 & 200) "The Children in the Wood" - ROUD#288 - In Pepys Diary of 1660s and Dr Johnson knew it well enough to parody ((Jeff Warner) - PERCY Reliques 3 - RIMBAULT Musical Illustr p108 - HALLIWELL NRE 1842/53 - BSs: Firth, Pearson (Manchester), Sanderson (Edinburgh) - CHAPPELL PMOT 1858 p200 - CHRISTIE TBA 1876 I 142 (13v) - MASON NRCS 1877 p22 Mitford family, Northumberland - ASHTON MSB 1888 pp124-7 ("It's a woeful bad tale I'm about to relate") comic ballad on theme - BARING-GOULD Nursery Songs 1895 p40 - SHARP Ms 2860 from Thomas Baldwin, Armcote Field 1913 - WILLIAMS FSUT 1923 p217 #229 Frederick Falconer, Black Bourton, Oxfordsh (w/o) "Two Babes in the Wood" (from King family, Castle Eaton, who pron "good" as "yood") - HARVEY East Anglia 1936 p88 - JEFDSS 1949 p16 Shaw Shetland 1v only - COPPER SESB 1971 pp198-9 Family, Rottingdean, Sussex 3v/m - PALMER EBECS 1975 #56 pp106-7 Gilchrist: Mrs Jenner, Kent c1907 (with verses added from Halliwell 1853) --- SHARP FSSA 1917/32 #47(vol 1p309) Philander Fitzgerald, Nash, Va 1918 - McGILL (Kentucky Mountains) p104 - JAFL 35 p348 - LEACH Labr p140 - BREWSTER Indiana 1940 p313 - HUDSON FSM p285 George Swetnam, Mississippi (w/o) - MORRIS FSOF 1950 p401-7 Mrs Lethane Harvey (w/o)/ Elsie Surber, Fla - RANDOLPH OFS 1 pp365-8 Mrs Marie Wilbur 1929/ Mrs Lillian Short 1940 (w/o)/ Mrs May Kennedy McCord 1941 2v (w/o)/ Mrs Bess Allman, Missouri 1941 3v (w/o)/ Mrs H L McDonald Ark 1942 3v (w/o) - CREIGHTON FSSNB 1971 pp183-4 Wm Wilson, NB 1954 -- Cf MEAGHER'S CHILDREN -- James COPPER rec Rottingdean Sussex 1951: RPL 16067 - Bob & Ron COPPER rec by PK, Central Club, Peacehaven, Sussex 3/5/55: EFDS LP-1002 -1963/ FOLK LEGACY FSB-19/ 081/ TOPIC TSCD-534 2001 - Bob COPPER, 1957, with talk about BOXING DAY (Dec 26th): RPL 25616 - Bob, Ron, Jill & John COPPER: LEADER LEAB (boxed) 4049 1971/ 238 - with Stephen FAUX (fid) in 4x30 min progs Radio 2 Oct 1990/ CASS-60-1013-4 - Tim HART & Maddy PRIOR (unacc): B & C CREST- 23 1968/76/ CASS-45-0853 - Shirley COLLINS & sister Dolly (flute organ): TOPIC 12-T-170 1967/ 307 A-ROVING 1968 #2 - Vic & Christine SMITH (+ conc) LONG MAN LM-4001 (nd) --- Dorothy HOWARD of Texas rec by Frank & Anne Warner NYC 1949: APPLESEED APR-CD-1035 2000