CONTENTS
Introduction vi
Ballads:
1. The False Knight Upon the Road 1
2. Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight 3
3. Earl Brand 9
4. The Two Sisters 16
5. The Cruel Brother 20
6. Lord Randal 22
7. Edward 26
8. Sir Lionel 28
9. The Cruel Mother 29
10. The Three Ravens 32
11. The Two Brothers 33
12. Young Beichan 38
13. The Cherry-Tree Carol 43
14. Fair Annie 45
15. Young Hunting 47
16. Lord Thomas and Fair Ellinor 55
17. Fair Margaret and Sweet William 62
18. Lord Lovel 71
19. The Wife of Usher's Well 73
20. Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard 78
21. Barbara Allen 90
22. Giles Collins 100
23. Lamkin 104
24. The Maid Freed from the Gallows 106
25. Johnie Scot 109
26. Sir Hugh 111
27. The Gypsy Laddie 112
28. Geordie 117
29. The Daemon Lover 119
30. The Grey Cock 128
31. The Suffolk Miracle 130
32. Our Goodman 134
33. The Wife Wrapt in Wether's Skin 137
34. The Farmer's Curst Wife 139
35. The Golden Vanity 142
36. The Brown Girl 145
37. The Trooper and the Maid 149
38. In Seaport Town 151
39. The Cruel Ship's Carpenter 154
40. Shooting of His Dear 159
41. The Lady and the Dragoon 161
42. The Boatsman and the Chest 163
43. The Holly Twig 165
44. Polly Oliver 167
45. The Rich Old Lady 168
46. Edwin in the Lowlands Low 169
47. Awake! Awake 173
48. The Green Bed 176
49. The Simple Ploughboy 178
50. The Three Butchers 179
51. William Taylor 181
52. The Golden Glove 182
53. Pretty Nancy of Yarmouth 184
54. The Silk Merchant's Daughter 186
55. Jack Went A-Sailing 189
Songs:
56. The Rejected Lover 197
57. The Lover's Lament 200
58. The Dear Companion 204
59. The Rocky Mountain Top 205
60. The Warfare is Raging 206
61. The True Lover's Farewell 208
62. Katie Morey 211
63. Rain and Snow 214
64. The Wagoner's Lad 215
65. Come all you Fair and Tender Ladies 220
66. Ibby Damsel 223
67. Handsome Sally 224
68. William and Polly 225
69. Hick's Farewell 227
70. Poor Omie 228
71. The Virginian Lover 231
72. Early, Early in the Spring 232
73. Married and Single Life 235
74. Betsy 236
75. If You Want to Go A-courting 238
76. Pretty Saro 239
77. My Dearest Dear 242
78. I'm Going to Georgia 243
79. Harry Gray 244
80. Locks and Bolts 245
81. William and Nancy 248
82. George Reilly 249
83. Johnny Doyle 251
84. Lazarus 253
85. Black is the Colour 255
86. The Single Girl 256
87. John Hardy 257
88. Betty Anne 259
89. My Boy Billy 260
90. Soldier, Won't You Marry me? 262
91. Swannanoa Town 263
92. The Keys of Heaven 264
93. Putman's Hill 268
94. The False Young Man 269
95. Pretty Peggy O 274
96. My Parents Treated Me Tenderly 276
97. The Sheffield Apprentice 278
98. The Broken Token 281
99. Wild Bill Jones 284
100. The Shoemaker 285
101. The Brisk Young Lover 286
102. Seven Long Years 288
103. Come All You Young and Handsome Girls 289
104. Loving Reilly 290
105. The Awful Wedding 292
106. Sweet William 293
107. Good Morning, My Pretty Little Miss 296
108. My Mother Bid Me 298
109. The Ten Commandments 300
110. The Tree in the Wood 302
Nursery Songs:
111. The Farmyard 307
112. The Drummer and His Wife 308
113. The Bird Song 310
114. Sourwood Mountain 312
115. The Foolish Boy 313
116. Harm Link 314
117. Sing Said the Mother 315
118. I Whipped My Horse 316
119. A Frog He Went A-courting 317
120. The Frog in the Well 319
121. The Carrion Crow 320
122. The Old Grey Mare 321
Notes 323
Bibliography 337
Index 339

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