From Mr Ford
Collected by Anne Geddes Gilchrist, Highfields, Sussex, 1907
Journal of the Folk-Song Society 6 (1918) pp.19-20
A full set of words was noted from Mr Ford’s daughter Ethel as The Cottage in the Wood. Anne Gilchrist also took down a very similar tune from another Blackham resident, Thomas Coomber – see It Rains, it Hails, it Blows, it Snows.
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