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Thread #151894   Message #3549940
Posted By: Reinhard
16-Aug-13 - 04:34 PM
Thread Name: DTStudy: Well Sold the Cow/Crafty Farmer-Child 283
Subject: RE: DTStudy: Well Sold the Cow/Crafty Farmer-Child 283
I have Roud 2637 in these books and albums listed on Mainly Norfolk:

Steve Roud's 'The New Penguin Book of English Folk Songs' has this song as 'Highwayman Outwitted'. The version he prints is 'The Yorkshire Boy', sung by Sam Fone, Mary Tavy, Devon (October 4, 1892), collected by Sabine Baring-Gould.

Mike Yates in 'Traveller's Joy', EFDSS 2006, prints 'Jack and the Robber', collected from Danny Brazil in Goucester in 1978. Another Danny Brazil version, recorded by Peter Shepheard at Over Bridge, Gloucester, on May 12, 1966 is on the Brazil Family's Musical Traditions anthology 'Down By the Old Riverside' (2007).

Roy Palmer's 'Room for Company', Cambridge University Press, 1971, has this song as 'The Crafty Ploughboy; or, The Highwayman Outwitted'.

Packie Manus Byrne sang 'John and the Farmer' in London in 1974. This recording is on his Topic album 'Songs of a Donegal Man' (1977).

Bess Cronin sang 'Well Sold the Cow' in Ballyvourney, Cork, in the early 1950s. This is on the Topic anthology 'Good People, Take Warning' (The Voice of the People Volume 23, 2012).