Most of the real folk songs of pre 1800 origin can be found by looking for 'traditional' or 'Child' (ballad) in the broadside ballad index on my website. Texts of some of these may be found in my Scarce Songs file.

Some, however, are not know to have been issued as broadside ballads or in songbooks. "Froggie went a courting", was issued as a broadside in 1580, but there is no extant broadside copy. [See Ravenscroft on SCA -www.pbm.com/--- site noted above for facsimile of earliest copy] Among others from manuscripts are "I gave my love a cherry without a stone", "The fox went out on a moonlight night", "Monaghan Fair" (Derry's Fair), "Warrington Fair", "The Stuttering Lovers" and "Robbie and Granny".[Last 4 in my Scarce Songs file]

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