From Mr Ford
Collected by Anne Geddes Gilchrist, Blackham, Sussex, June 1906
Anne Geddes Gilchrist Collection AGG/3/6/10b
Roud 54, Child 84
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.
Sylvie
From Mr Ford
Collected by Anne Geddes Gilchrist, Blackham, Sussex, June 1906
Anne Geddes Gilchrist Collection AGG/3/6/21, Journal of the Folk-Song Society 8 (1930) p.227