I've just learned 'The Birth of Robin Hood' from Spiers and Boden but I wonder if the high note in the second and third line of each verse is a Jon Boden affectation. It occurs in other songs of theirs, 'Brown Adam', for example, but as I've never heard another version of either song I sing it as Jon does. To change it by simply singing it in the same way as the first and fourth lines means changing the chord. Does anyone know what the 'correct' melody is? Or are they simply putting their own melody to Child 102?