Contents
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Preface by Dave Burland
Introduction by Nick Dow
SONGS
12   An Acre of Land
13   The Artillery Alphabet
14   As Tommy Was Walking (Tommy and the Apples)
15   The Barley Corn (The Barley Mow)
16   The Barnburgh Tup (The Derby Ram)
18   The Battle of Trafalgar (Nelson’s Monument)
19   The Bilsdale Hunt Song
21   Bold Rennie (Three Jolly Huntsmen)
22   The Bonny Hawthorn
23   The Bonny Yorkshire Lass (My Pretty Yorkshire Lass)
25   Buttercups (Down in the fields where the buttercups all grow )
26   Castle Hill Anthem (Pleasant and Delightful)
27   The Cat, the Mouse and the Cask of Ale
29   The Christmas Goose
31   The Cliffs of Old Whitby
32   Collier Lads (The Soldier Laddie)
33   The Country Carrier
34   The Country Gawby
36   A country life for me
38   The Cropper Lads
39   The Cropton Murders
40   The Death of Bill Brown
42   Despised for Being Poor
43   Dick Turpin’s Ride to York
45   Died for Love
46   The Duke of Buckingham’s Hunting Song (The Noble Foxhunting)
48   The Farmer of Cheshire’s Daughter
50   The Farmyard Song
51   Father’s Advice
53   A fine old lady was my grandma (My grandma’s advice)
54   Forty Miles
55   Foster’s Mill
56   Fylingdales Hunt Song
58   The Gallant Hussar
60   Gather all round
61   Gode rest ye merry, gentlemen
62   Gossip John (Gossip Joan)
63   The Grey Goose and Gander (The Goose and the Gander)
64   Hear the nightingales sing (The Bold Grenadier)
65   Hedon Road Gaol
66   Here we come a-wassailing
67   The Herring’s Head (The Herring Song)
69   The Holmfirth Anthem (Through the Groves)
70   I wish I was single again
71   I’ve fun a bod’s nest
72   The Indian Lass
74   Jolly Country Lads Are We (Old Joe Braddleum)
75   The Jolly Ploughboy
77   The Jolly Waggoner
78   The Keys of Heaven
79   King Henry was King James’ son (The White Cockade)
80   The Lady of Robin Hood’s Bay (Mary Wright)
82   The Lily-White Hand
84   The Little Ball of Yarn (The Ball of Yarn)
85   Lord Bateman
88   The Lyke Wake Dirge
90   MacGregor John and John MacGregor (Bohunkus and Josephus)
91   Marrow Bones
93   Master Smith says to John
95   The Maypole Song
97   Merry Mountain Child
99   A Milking Can (Mother, will you buy me a milking can?)
100   Mutton Pie
102   My Beautiful Muff (The Beautiful Muff)
104   My father died (The Foolish Boy)
105   My Little Fiddle (My thing is my own)
107   No, my love, not I
108   The Nobleman’s Lady (The Alderman’s Lady)
109   The Oak and the Ash (Rosemary Lane)
111   Old Adam Was a Gentleman
113   Old Grimy
115   Old Johnny Walker
116   The Old Man from Lea
117   The Old Mare
119   Old Matha Gummersal
120   The Old Sow (The Dead Pig)
121   Pace-Egging Song
122   The Pear Tree
124   Poor Old Horse
125   Poverty Knocks
127   Pretty Nancy of Yarmouth (Nancy of Yarmouth)
128   The Pride of the Pack
130   Rumpsy-Bumpsy-Ay (Rumpsy Bumpsy)
132   The Sandstone Girl
134   The Saucy Sailor
135   The Sheffield Apprentice
137   Sheffield Park
138   The Sheffield Ship Canal
139   Six Jolly Miners
140   The Soldier and the Sailor
141   Spence Broughton
143   Spencer the Rover
144   Staithes Anthem (The Fisherman and his Child)
146   Still I love him
147   Stow Brow (The Drowned Sailor)
148   The Summer’s Morning (The White Cockade)
149   The Tailor’s Britches
151   Take care of your wives (Preaching for Bacon)
153   There was a maiden fair
154   Three Jolly Fishermen
155   Three men they went a-yunting (Three men went a-hunting)
156   Three-score-and-ten
158   Timothy Briggs the Barber (The Parson with the Wooden Leg)
160   The Two Crows
161   Undaunted Mary (The Banks of the Sweet Dundee)
163   Underneath Her Apron (Three Maids a-Rushing)
165   Up to me Rigs (The Rigs of London Town)
166   Wanton Lasses
168   The Wensleydale Lad
170   What is that blood on thy shirt sleeve? (Edward)
172   Where there’s a will there’s a way
174   The Wild Rover
176   Willy Went to Westerdale
178   The Wreck of the Industry (Industry off SpurnPoint)
180   The Yorkshire Wassailing Song