Down in the Meadows (The Meadows Down Below)

Roderick Enderson

Collected by James Madison Carpenter, Royal Alfred, Belvedere, 1928 

James Madison Carpenter MSS Collection (JMC/1/5/4/A, JMC/1/1/1/A)

Roud 22910

 “Learned chantey from old cockney, Blumire, sixty years old… A spirited capstan chantey with a swinging melodious air, does not occur in any collections that I have examined”.