From Ethel Ford
Collected by Anne Geddes Gilchrist, Blackham, Sussex, May 1905
Anne Geddes Gilchrist Collection AGG/8/16
Anne Gilchrist noted a tune for this song from Ethel Ford’s father William – see I prithee, love, let me in.
I prithee, love, let me in
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.
It Rains, it Hails, it Blows, it Snows
From Mr Coomber
Collected by Anne Geddes Gilchrist, Blackham, Sussex, May 1907
Anne Geddes Gilchrist Collection AGG/3/6/17a, AGG/3/6/17b
Anne Gilchrist took down a very similar tune from another Blackham resident, William Ford – see I prithee, love, let me in – and a full set of words from Mr Ford’s daughter Ethel as The Cottage in the Wood.