Recorded by Mike Yates, St Marys Cray, 1973
Mike Yates collection, British Library Sound Archive C 796/43 (VWML 13 CDA Yates)
Box upon her head
Recorded by Mike Yates, Orpington, 12th September 1973
Mike Yates collection, British Library Sound Archive C 796/46 (VWML 15 CDA Yates)
The Brake of Brambles
Recorded by Mike Yates, St Marys Cray, 1973
Mike Yates collection, British Library Sound Archive C 796/43 (VWML 13 CDA Yates)
Roud 47479
The words are so fragmentary that it’s not possible to say of which song this is a version. Steve Roud has therefore – reluctantly – assigned the song its very own Roud number.
The Cuckoo
Recorded by Mike Yates, St Marys Cray, 1973
Mike Yates collection, British Library Sound Archive C 796/43 (VWML 13 CDA Yates)
Seventeen come Sunday
Recorded by Mike Yates, St Marys Cray, 1973
Mike Yates collection, British Library Sound Archive C 796/43 (VWML 13 CDA Yates)
Botany Bay
From Joseph Jones
Recorded by Mike Yates, Orpington, October 1973
Folk Music Journal Vol 3 No 1 (1975)
Ripest Apples
The Pear Tree
From Joseph Jones
Recorded by Mike Yates, Kent, January 1975
Folk Music Journal Vol 3 No 1 (1975)
Although a comparatively rare song, versions have been collected in East Anglia, Yorkshire, Scotland and Ireland, while Steve Gardham has found the same story in a seventeenth century black-letter ballad, ‘The Crost Couple’.
The original recording from which this transcription made does not seem to have been included in the copies of Mike Yates’ tapes lodged with the British Library or the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library.
Hopping down in Kent
From Dorothy Spicer, Selsfield, West Sussex.
From a tape recorded by Ken Spicer
Sussex Traditions https://sussextraditions.org/record/hopping-down-in-kent-2/
My Lovely Hops
From Mary Ann Haynes
Recorded by Mike Yates, Sussex, July 1974
Travellers, Topic Records 12TS395, 1985.
This is a parody of the Music Hall song ‘Our threepenny hop’, the chorus of which runs
At our threepenny hop, our threepenny hop;
Where the boys and girls are found
Hopping it round and round and round;
When you start a-dancing you never know when to stop.
It’s Hi! Hi! Go as you please, at our threepenny hop.
See https://folksongandmusichall.com/index.php/our-threepenny-hop/