Contributed by Anne G. Gilchrist to the Journal of the English Folk Dance and Song Society, Vol. 5, No. 1 (Dec., 1946), p32.
From Notes and Queries, Series 3 Volume 3, No 53 (January 3rd 1863), p6
A Man Who is Married
The Fox and the Bear
From Mr Ring
Collected by Francis Collinson, Bethersden, November 1942
Francis Collinson Collection COL/1/17
There was a jolly boatman
Collected by Francis Collinson, Pembury, 26th March 1952
Francis Collinson Manuscript Collection COL/5/59B
Under the title ‘The Bold Boatswain of Dover’ this song was published on broadsides in the first half of the nineteenth century by, among others, the London printers J. Pitts and J. Catnach. A Catnach printing can be viewed in an Album of Broadside Ballads, Volume 5, held by the University of Kentucky.
The Twelve Days of Christmas
Collected by Francis Collinson, Pembury, 26th March 1952
Francis Collinson Manuscript Collection COL/5/59A
I am a man who’s done wrong to my parents
From Bill Rolph
Collected by Francis Collinson, St. Nicholas at Wade, 19th May 1948
Francis Collinson Manuscript Collection COL/1/21
Tune – no name
From Mrs Oliver
Collected by Francis Collinson, Bethersden
Francis Collinson Collection COL/5/10
Roud 0
I wish I wish, but it’s all in vain
The Aged Pair
From Mrs Oliver
Collected by Francis Collinson, Bethersden, 30th April 1945
Francis Collinson Collection COL/2/36