From Bob Ellison
Collected by Cecil Sharp, Belvedere, 7th September 1914
Cecil Sharp MSS, Folk Tunes CJS2/10/3030
So Handy
From Bob Ellison
Collected by Cecil Sharp, Belvedere, 4th September 1914
Cecil Sharp MSS, Folk Tunes CJS2/10/3029
Shanadar
From Bob Ellison
Collected by Cecil Sharp, Belvedere, 4th September 1914
Cecil Sharp MSS, Folk Tunes CJS2/10/3028
Shallow Brown
From Bob Ellison
Collected by Cecil Sharp, Belvedere, 4th September 1914
Cecil Sharp MSS, Folk Tunes CJS2/10/3027
Blow The Man Down
From Bob Ellison
Collected by Cecil Sharp, Belvedere, 4th September 1914
Cecil Sharp MSS, Folk Tunes CJS2/10/3024B
There was a King
Collected by Rev. Philip Parsons from a female parishioner, Wye
Sent to Thomas Percy 7th April 1770
From the Percy Papers (Percy MS – 129.A) via the Bluegrass Messengers website, http://www.bluegrassmessengers.com/there-was-a-king–child-10y-the-twa-sisters.aspx
Roud 8, Child 10
When I Was A Maid
Collected by Rev. Philip Parsons from a female parishioner, Wye
Sent to Thomas Percy 7th April 1770
From the Percy Papers (Percy MS – 129.A) via the Bluegrass Messengers website,
http://www.bluegrassmessengers.com/when-i-was-a-maid.aspx
Roud ?
The Lady and the Handsome Butcher
Collected by Rev. Philip Parsons from a female parishioner, Wye
Sent to Thomas Percy 22nd May 1770
From the Percy Papers (Percy MS – 129.A) via the Bluegrass Messengers website, http://www.bluegrassmessengers.com/the-lady-and-the-handsome-butcher.aspx
Roud ?
Oh good Lord Judge
Collected by Rev. Philip Parsons from a female parishioner, Wye
Sent to Thomas Percy 7th April 1770
From the Percy Papers (Percy MS – 129.A) via the Bluegrass Messengers website, http://www.bluegrassmessengers.com/o-good-lord-judge–child-95a-maid-freed.aspx
Roud 144, Child 95
Long Longkin
Collected by Rev. Philip Parsons from a female parishioner, Wye
Sent to Thomas Percy 19th April 1775
From the Percy Papers (Percy MS – 129.A) via the Bluegrass Messengers website, http://www.bluegrassmessengers.com/long-longkin–parsons-1775-child-93k-lamkin.aspx
Roud 6, Child 93
Steve Gardham suggests that the lines “He was in league with the nurse who let him in to one of the low rooms” and “Whilst he and the nurse are plundering the house the Lord comes home & avenges himself upon those wicked villains” were spoken interjections, where the singer could remember the gist of the story, but not the specific