From Albert Beale
Recorded by Peter Kennedy and Maud Karpeles, Kenardington, 14th January 1954
BBC recording 21157
Roud 298
In London’s Fair City (Villikins and his Dinah)
From Albert Beale
Recorded by Peter Kennedy and Maud Karpeles, Kenardington, 14th January 1954
BBC recording 21156
A frog he would a-wooing go
From Albert Beale
Recorded by Peter Kennedy and Maud Karpeles, Kenardington, 14th January 1954
BBC recording 21156
The Bailiff’s Daughter of Islington
From Albert Beale
Recorded by Peter Kennedy and Maud Karpeles, Kenardington, 14th January 1954
BBC recording 21156
Roud 483, Child 105
The Moon Shines Bright
From Albert Beale
Recorded by Peter Kennedy and Maud Karpeles, Kenardington, 14th January 1954
BBC recording 21157
A comical ditty (Fol the rol lol, The Limerick Ditty)
From Albert Beale
Recorded by Peter Kennedy and Maud Karpeles, Kenardington, 14th January 1954
BBC recording 21156
‘Fol-the-rol-lol’ was first published in 1902. Credited to Fred W. Leigh and Fred Murray, it was sung by George Lashwood (1863 – 1942), a popular English singer and comedian of the Edwardian era. For more information, see https://folksongandmusichall.com/index.php/fol-the-rol-lol/
The shooting of his dear
From Clarence Rook
Collected by Cecil Sharp
Journal of the Folk-Song Society 2 (1905) pp.59-60
One of two versions contributed to JFSS 1905 by Cecil Sharp:
I noted the second version – which is but a fragment – from Mr. Clarence Rook, who heard it sung twenty years ago by a very old man at a Harvest Supper at Homestall, Doddington, near Faversham, Kent.
Four jolly smiths
Sung by Robert Catt at Warehorne
“A very successful concert was given in the Warehorne board schools on Wednesday evening, the Rev. T. Mayhew presiding”.
Kentish Express, 26th January 1889
‘Four jolly smiths’ began life as a poem by James Rockcliffe, and appeared in The Camp of the Hallamshires, and Other Poems, published in 1865 by Pawson and Brailsford, Sheffield. As a song, it was published as sheet music by Hutchings & Romer (undated, but the National Library of Australia suggests between 1877 and 1890) with the lyrics credited to J. Louis Rockliffe, and music by Henry T. Leslie. It was billed as “a right jovial song”, and “sung by Mr. Green”. The front cover of the sheet music can be viewed on the Victoria & Albert Museum website. A four-part harmony arrangement of the song was included in Novello’s Part-Song Book (Second Series).
The song has not been collected from oral tradition, but there were broadside printings – the Roud Index lists one broadside in the Bodleian Library collection, and one published by the Poet’s Box, Glasgow. The latter is dated 9th May 1875.
Via the Internet Archive you can hear the song being sung on a 78rpm record by Robert Howe, on the Parlophone label.
A Hunting Song
From Charles Bassett, Seal
Southern Weekly News, 8th September 1888
Sent by Charles Bassett to the Southern Weekly News.
I think it was in the year 1856 when a friend of mine came from Sussex to reside in this locality, and used to sing the song. It was by this means that I came to know it, so I think it may well be considered a Sussex song. I never saw it in Print, and whether the enclosed are quite the original words or not I am not prepared to say.
Jew From Spain
From Children at Trosley
Collected by Cecil Sharp, 29 July 1908
Cecil Sharp MSS, Folk Tunes CJS2/10/1731
Children’s game.
See the VWML Archive Catalogue for a description of the game: https://archives.vwml.org/records/CJS2/10/1731