Thank you all for your wonderful responses! They are very helpful. While I love my public library, unfortunately, they are sadly lacking in this regard: they have only a single, limited volume of Child Ballads, plus Lomax's book. Hence, I am looking for more! My interest is mostly singing, with an eye toward ballad variants. So a collection that has variants of the ballads, tunes, and enables me to learn to sing them is what I'm after. It kind of sounds like I can't go wrong. Jonathan
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