Dave et al: It was MacColl on, as Guest wrote, The Riverside/Washington set (1956-60), on the 9th disk, Non-Child ballads. One of the real prides of my records and certainly the best-produced Child set ever. Well-researched notes by Goldstein & excellent glossary by MacColl. How I got started learning Scottish language and balladry.

No, none of these, and no Riverside at all have been reproduced. It's a brilliant storehouse of trad song - just sitting somewere. The Folkways E&S PB set is good but cheaply produced, aborted a little way in (3 records only) and with many typos & limitations. Only MacColl sang - it was just too huge a project for then, 1961. I don't think Topic ran more than a single record.

The Dransfields were the first I heard to but the sex ("sport and play") verse in and they very reasonably said that without that one the whole thing makes a lot less sense and gives the boy nothing at all to relieve the tragedy - at least he now gets an afternoon of sex with "an older woman." I then added that in to MacColl's version, myself.