From Children at Trosley
Collected by Cecil Sharp, (29 July 1908 ?)
Cecil Sharp MSS, Folk Tunes CJS2/10/1732
Children’s game.
See the VWML Archive Catalogue for a description of the game: https://archives.vwml.org/records/CJS2/10/1732
Two Pigeons
From Children at Trosley
Collected by Cecil Sharp, 29 July 1908
Cecil Sharp MSS, Folk Tunes CJS2/10/1733
Children’s game.
See the VWML Archive Catalogue for a description of the game: https://archives.vwml.org/records/CJS2/10/1733
I’m A Navvy
From Children at Trosley
Collected by Cecil Sharp, 29 July 1908
Cecil Sharp MSS, Folk Tunes CJS2/10/1730
Children’s game.
See the VWML Archive Catalogue for a description of the game: https://archives.vwml.org/records/CJS2/10/1730
Poor Mary Sits A Weeping
From Children at Trosley
Collected by Cecil Sharp, (29 July 1908 ?)
Cecil Sharp MSS, Folk Tunes CJS2/10/1734
Children’s game.
See the VWML Archive Catalogue for a description of the game: https://archives.vwml.org/records/CJS2/10/1734
Cobbler Cobbler Mend My Shoe
From Children at Trosley
Collected by Cecil Sharp, 29 July 1908
Cecil Sharp MSS, Folk Words CJS2/9/1567
Children’s game.
See the VWML Archive Catalogue for a description of the game: https://archives.vwml.org/records/CJS2/9/1567
My Nan’s a Mazer
From Dr Johnson
Collected by Francis Collinson, Smarden
Francis Collinson Manuscript Collection COL/5/27
Collinson listed this as a “Yorkshire song”, but in fact it originated as a Geordie dialect song, ‘Wor Nanny’s a mazer’, composed by the “The Pitman Poet” Tommy Armstrong, from County Durham. The original words can be found at https://folksongandmusichall.com/index.php/wor-nannys-a-mazer/
Heaving the Lead
From Bob Ellison
Collected by Cecil Sharp, Belvedere, 7th September 1914
Cecil Sharp MSS, Folk Tunes CJS2/10/3040
Haul the Bowline
From Bob Ellison
Collected by Cecil Sharp, Belvedere, 7th September 1914
Cecil Sharp MSS, Folk Tunes CJS2/10/3039
Ranzo
From Bob Ellison
Collected by Cecil Sharp, Belvedere, 7th September 1914
Cecil Sharp MSS, Folk Tunes CJS2/10/3038
The Dead Horse
From Bob Ellison
Collected by Cecil Sharp, Belvedere, 7th September 1914
Cecil Sharp MSS, Folk Tunes CJS2/10/3037