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Vol. 1: The lover's tasks (The elfin knight) -- The outlandish knight (Lady Isabel and the elf knight) -- The dragoon and the lady (Earl Brand) -- Lord Randal -- The cruel mother -- The banks of Green Willow (Bonnie Annie) -- The Broomfield wager (The Broomfield hill) -- The two magicians -- Lord Bateman (Young Beichan) -- The cherry tree carl -- King Herod and the cock (The Carnal and the crane) -- Dives and Lazarus -- Sir William Gower, or Captain Glen (Brown Robyn's confession) -- Lady Maisry -- Lord Thomas and fair Ellinor -- Fair Margaret and sweet William -- Lord Lovel -- The unquiet grave, or Cold blows the wind -- Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard -- Barbara Ellen (Bonny Barbara Allen) -- Giles Collins, or George Collins (Lady Alice) -- The lowlands of Holland (Bonny Bee Hom) -- Lamkin -- The maid freed from the gallows, or The briery bush -- Willie O Winsbury, or Lord Thomas of Winesberry -- The bailiff's daughter of Islington -- The knight and the shepherd's daughter -- Blow away the morning dew, or The new mown hay (The baffled knight) -- Robin Hood and the tanner -- Robin Hood and the pedlar (The bold pedlar and Robin Hood) -- Sir Hugh -- The death of Queen Jane -- The burglar (Archie O Cawfield) -- The gypsy laddie, or The wraggle taggle gypsies -- Waly Waly (Jamie Douglas) -- Geordie -- The green wedding (Katharine Jaffray) -- Henry Martin -- Our Goodman -- Bar up the old door (Get up and bar the door) -- Ruggleton's daughter of Iero (The wife wrapt in Wether's skin) -- The farmer's curst wife -- The dirty beggarman (The jolly beggar) -- The coasts of high Barbary (The George Aloe and the sweepstake) -- The golden vanity -- The mermaid -- A sailor from Dover (The brown girl) -- The bold fisherman -- Nancy of Yarmouth -- Death and the lady -- Shooting of his dear -- The cruel ship's carpenter -- A sailor by my right, or flame or fire -- Still growing, or the trees they do grow high -- Sir Dukes, or The duke of Bedford -- The lake of Coulfin -- The drowned lover -- The nobleman's wedding, or All round my hat -- The false bride, or The week before Easter -- The three butchers -- Bruton town -- The constant farmer's son -- Edwin in the lowlands low -- James MacDonald -- The miller's apprentice, or The Oxford girl -- The Oxford murder -- Floating down the tide -- Mary in the silvery tide -- Maria Martin -- The jealous lover, or In Oxford city -- The bold lietenant, or The lion's den -- The banks of Inverary -- Young Barnswell -- The blind beggar's daughter of Bethnal Green -- The Turkish lady -- The lost lady found -- Bedlam -- Arise, arise -- The bonny lighter boy -- The chain of gold -- Betsy, or A glazier's daughter -- Johnny Doyle -- Daughter in the dungeon -- Locks and bolts -- Erin's lovely home -- Rosetta and her gay ploughboy -- Once I courted -- Reilly sent to America -- The rolling main -- William and Phyllis -- The miser's daughter, or The silk merchant's daughter -- Said the father to the daughter, or Our ship she lies in harbour -- The navvy lad -- Searching for lambs -- As I walked through the meadows -- The shepherd and his fife -- A farmer's son so sweet -- The shepherdess and the sailor -- Searching for young lambs, or A long and wishing eye -- The sweet nightingale -- Welcome in young shepherd, or The pleasant month of May -- the rose in June, or Let it be early, late, or soon -- Limady -- The crystal spring -- Master Kilby -- The foggy dew -- Forty long miles, or It rains, it hails -- Seventeen come Sunday -- Hares on the mountains, or Sally my dear -- Dabbling in the dew -- Gently Johnny my jingalo -- Raking of hay -- Ripest apples -- Three maids a-milking -- The brickster -- Green broom -- The green mossy banks of the lee -- Mowing the barley, or Lawyer Lee -- The sign of the bonny blue bell -- A cornish young man -- My man John -- The keys of Canterbury -- My true love is lost -- Farewell, lads and lasse -- The first of May, or The month of May -- The blackbird. |
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Vol 1. (cont.): The Irish girl -- Pretty miss, will you wed -- Write me down ye powers above -- The true lover's farewell, or The little turtle dove -- High Germany, or The rout has now begun -- High Germany, or The king's command must be obeyed -- Pretty Sally -- Adieu, my lovely Nancy -- Pretty Nancy of London -- British man of war -- Farewell my dearest Nancy -- Lisbon -- Blackbirds and thrushes -- Our captain cried all hands -- Sweet Susan -- Tarry trousers -- The dark eyed sailor, or Phoebe and her dark eyed sailor -- The broken token, or The young single sailor -- Pretty Caroline -- Faithful Nancy, or One fine summer's morning -- Beautiful Nancy -- The banks of Claudy -- Mantle of Green, or Famed Waterloo -- Sweet Jenny of the moor -- The sailor from sea -- The watchet sailor -- The seeds of love, or The sprig of thyme -- My bonny, bonny boy -- Green bushes -- A brisk young lover -- Sheffield park -- The sweet primroses -- A shoemaker courted me -- The pride of Kildare -- Early, early in the spring -- Through the woods, or Down in the groves -- The cuckoo -- The Americans have stolen my true love away -- The chaps of Cocaigny, or The boys of Kilkenny -- I wish I had never known -- The orange and blue, or Green grows the laurel -- Once I had a sweetheart, or Sally sat a-weeping -- Maids a-rushing, or Underneath her apron -- The bold grenadier, or The nightingale -- The sentry -- The shannon side, or Captain Thunderbolt -- Down by the riverside, or I am too young -- As I walked out one May morning, or Tippling over the plain -- No, my love, no I -- Glastonbury town -- Valentine's Day -- Rosemary lane, or The oak and the ash -- The Hazelbury girl -- Betsy Wilson, or Betsy Watson -- At seventeen years of age -- No sir, or O no John -- Jack the jolly tar -- Cold blow and a rainy night -- The miller and the lass -- Bibberly town, or The tinker behind the door -- The devil's in the girl -- The Liverpool landlady. |
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Vol. 2: The boatsman and the tailor -- The cobbler and the butcher -- The poor couple -- Man from Dover -- Will the weaver -- The sea captain -- Whistle, daughter, whistle -- The fit's come on me now -- The unmarried maiden's lament -- My mother bid me -- An old man he courted me -- Never marry an old man -- The holly twig -- Robin a thrush -- The brisk young bachelor -- You bachelors you know, or You married men -- The old man and his wife, or The drummer -- A woman's work is never done -- The rich old lady, or Johnny Sands -- The Devonshire farmer's daughter, or The highwayman outwitted -- Box upon her head, or The undaunted female -- The crafty maid's policy -- The banks of sweet Dundee -- Sweet lovely Joan -- Pretty Betsy the milkmaid, or Blackberry fold -- William Taylor -- The press gang, or In London fair city -- Polly Oliver -- The female cabin boy -- The simple ploughboy, or The pretty ploughboy -- The golden glove, or Dog and gun -- Sovay sovay, or The female highwayman -- Poor Nell and the chimney sweep -- The councillor's daughter, or The lawyer outwitted -- Sweet Kitty -- The basket of eggs -- Bung your eye -- The oyster girl -- Riding down to Portsmouth -- The tarpaulin jacket, or The rakish young fellow -- St. James's hospital, or The sailor cut down in his prime -- Rosin the beau -- My parents and I could never agree -- The deserter -- Fanny Blair -- I kept a pack of hounds, or The broken-down gentleman -- Adieu to old England, or Once I could ride in my coach -- Botany bay -- The isle of France -- Van Diemen's land -- Jack Hall -- Jack Williams, or Boatman by my trade -- Salisbury plain -- The rigs of London town -- The rambling boy, or In Newry city -- Dick Turpin hero -- Brennan on the moor -- Captain Grant -- John Barleycorn -- It's a rosebud in June -- The lark in the morn -- A sweet country life -- Two jolly brothers, or The jolly ploughboy -- The painful plough -- All jolly fellows that follow the plough -- Sheep shearing -- Once I was a shepherd boy -- Shepherds are the best of men, or The stormy winds do blow -- The jolly waggoner -- The carter -- Twankydillo -- The nobleman and thresherman -- The husbandman and serving man -- Bingo -- Sheep shearing toast, or Here's a health to the master -- Sheep shearing toast, or We'll reap and mow -- Horn, boys, horn or So selfish runs the mare -- Bird starver's cry -- The duke's hunting song -- Bold Reynard the fox -- The cheerful arn, or When bucks a-hunting go -- Hunting the hare -- The keeping -- Thorney moor woods -- The hearty poacher, or Hares and plantations -- The sheep stealer -- The hearty good fellow -- The game of cards -- Bold Robinson -- Creeping Jane -- The little dun mare -- Bridgwater fair -- Brimbledown fair -- Bold Nelson's praise -- Admiral Benbow -- The bold princess royal -- The Britannia and the Union -- The Chesapeake and Shannon -- The London man o' war, or The royal Delamore -- Come all you bold Britons -- Spanish ladies -- Cape horn -- The wreck of the Ramilly -- The Greenland fishery -- The ship in distress -- On board of a man of war O -- The captain's apprentice -- 'Tis I myself have done -- Outward bound -- The rambling sailor -- The saucy sailor -- The green bed -- Sweet William -- Marlborough -- The bonny bunch of roses o -- General Wolfe -- Drink old England dry -- A man that is stout -- Come lovely comrades -- The croppy boy -- Dicky of Taunton Dene -- Robin's courtship -- Harry the tailor -- Arthur Bradley O -- Joan to Jan -- My boy Willie, or Billy boy -- The crabfish -- Good old man -- Robbie and Grannie -- The mare and the foal -- Midsummer fair -- Gossip Joan -- The three sons -- The cobbler and the goose -- The three cripples -- The derby ram -- As I was going to Banbury -- Balaam and egg -- James Morrell is dead -- The foolish boy, or The swapping song -- The frog and the mouse -- Three jolly huntsmen -- The carrion crow -- The fox and the goose -- The twelve days of Christmas -- The barley mow -- I had a little cock. |
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Vol. 2 (cont.): Jolly old hawk -- The mallard -- One man shall mow my meadow -- The tree in the wood -- Dashing away with the smoothing iron, or Driving away with the smoothing iron -- The farmyard, or The merry green fields -- Joan's ale was new -- The jolly shilling -- The red herring - The virgin unspotted, or In Bethlehem city -- On Christmas night, or On Christmas time -- Nowell nowell -- The holy day -- Come all you true good Christians -- Christmas now is drawing near -- God rest you merry gentlemen -- The holly and the ivy -- The joys of Mary -- Our saviour's love -- The leaves of life -- When Jesus Christ had lived -- The black decree -- As I sat on a sunny bank, or I saw three ships -- The holy well -- The bitter withy -- God made a trance -- The sons of Levi -- The truth sent from above -- Come all you worthy Christians -- Awake awake, on New year's carol -- The moon shines bright -- A happy new year -- The man that lives -- The sinner's redemption, or All you that are unto mirth inclined -- The little room -- The twelve apostles -- Wassail song -- Padstow May song -- The streams of lovely Nancy -- The sailor and the soldier -- The beggar -- Poor old horse -- A brisk young widow -- The acquittal of Thomas Halloran -- Loch na Garr -- The alderman's lady -- A sailor from the north countree, or The sailor and his beautiful wife -- Bonnets so blue -- Just as the tide was a-flowing -- A sailor courted a farmer's daughter -- The orphan boy -- The Sheffield apprentice -- Sweet Europe -- The American stranger -- George Ridler's oven -- Old woman lame and blind -- Come all brother seamen -- Baskets and chairs (Street cry) -- Lavender (Street cry) -- Young lambs (Street cry). |
| General note | Unacc. |
| General note | Includes index. |
| Bibliography note | Bibliography: v. 1, p. 745-751; v. 2, p. 655-661. |
| Other title | Collection of English folk songs. |
| LCCN | 74194773 |
