One Hundred English Folksongs

One Hundred
English Folksongs

Edited by Cecil J. Sharp

For Medium Voice

 

 

Boston: Oliver Ditson Company
New York: Chas. H. Ditson & Co., Chicago: Lyon & Healy

 

[Price: Paper, $1.50; Cloth, $2.50]

Copyright, 1916, by Oliver Ditson Company
International Copyright Secured

 

D. S. Updike, The Merrymount Press, Boston

To
Mrs. James Jackson Storrow

Contents

Introductory Material (not listed in original)		Page
Index		xi
Preface		xiii
Notes on the Songs		xvii
Ballads
1.	Henry Martin	1
2.	Bruton Town	4
3.	The Knight and the Shepherd’s Daughter	6
4.	Robin Hood and the Tanner	8
5.	The Wraggle Taggle Gipsies, O!	13
6.	Lord Bateman	17
7.	Barbara Ellen	20
8.	Little Sir Hugh	22
9.	Geordie	24
10.	Lady Maisry	26
11.	The Outlandish Knight	29
12.	The Coasts of High Barbary	32
13.	The Cruel Mother	35
14.	The Golden Vanity	36
15.	Lord Thomas of Winesberry	38
16.	The Green Wedding	40
17.	The Briery Bush	42
18.	Lord Rendal	44
19.	Blow away the Morning Dew	46
20.	The Two Magicians	48
21.	The Duke of Bedford	50
22.	Death and the Lady	52
23.	The Low, Low Lands of Holland	54
24.	The Unquiet Grave, or Cold blows the wind	56
25.	The trees they do grow high	58
26.	Lord Lovel	60
27.	False Lamkin	62
28.	Lord Thomas and Fair Ellinor	65
29.	The Death of Queen Jane	68
Songs
30.	Farewell, Nancy	70
31.	Sweet Kitty	72
32.	The Crystal Spring	74
33.	The Seeds of Love	76
34.	The Sprig of Thyme	79
35.	The Cuckoo	82
36.	Blackbirds and Thrushes	84
37.	The Drowned Lover	86
38.	The Sign of the Bonny Blue Bell	88
39.	O Waly, Waly	90
40.	Green Bushes	92
41.	Bedlam	94
42.	The Bold Fisherman	96
43.	The Rambling Sailor	98
44.	Dabbling in the Dew	100
45.	The Saucy Sailor	102
46.	Fanny Blair	104
47.	Arise, arise	106
48.	Searching for Lambs	108
49.	Green Broom	110
50.	The Bonny Lighter-Boy	112
51.	The Sweet Priméroses	114
52.	My Bonny, Bonny Boy	116
53a.	As I walked through the meadows. (First Version)	120
53b.	As I walked through the meadows. (Second Version)	122
54.	Erin’s Lovely Home	124
55.	The True Lover’s Farewell	126
56.	High Germany	127
57.	Sweet Lovely Joan	130
58.	My Boy Willie	132
59.	Whistle, Daughter, Whistle	134
60.	Mowing the Barley	136
61.	I’m Seventeen come Sunday	138
62.	The Lark in the Morn	141
63.	Hares on the Mountains	142
64.	O Sally, my dear	144
65.	Gently, Johnny, my Jingalo	146
66.	The Keys of Canterbury	148
67.	My Man John	150
68.	O No, John!	154
69.	The Brisk Young Bachelor	156
70.	Ruggleton’s Daughter of Iero	158
71.	William Taylor	160
72.	Sweet William	162
73.	The Watchet Sailor	164
74.	Scarborough Fair	167
75.	Brimbledon Fair, or Young Ramble-Away	170
76.	Bridgwater Fair	172
77.	The Crabfish	174
78.	The Beggar	176
79.	The Keeper	178
80.	The Three Sons	180
81.	Jack Hall	182
82.	Driving away at the Smoothing Iron	184
83.	The Robber	187
84.	John Barleycorn	190
85.	Poor Old Horse	196
86.	Botany Bay	198
87.	Admiral Benbow	200
88.	Bold Nelson’s Praise	202
89.	Spanish Ladies	205
90.	The Ship in Distress	208
91.	Come all you worthy Christian men	212
92.	Wassail Song	214
93.	It’s a rosebud in June	217
94.	A Brisk Young Sailor	220
95.	The Sheep-Shearing	222
Accumulative
96.	The Twelve Days of Christmas	224
97.	The Ten Commandments	226
98.	The Tree in the Wood	230
99.	The Barley-Mow	232
100.	One man shall mow my meadow	235