The shooting of his dear

From Clarence Rook

Collected by Cecil Sharp

Journal of the Folk-Song Society 2 (1905) pp.59-60

Roud 166

One of two versions contributed to JFSS 1905 by Cecil Sharp:

I noted the second version – which is but a fragment – from Mr. Clarence Rook, who heard it sung twenty years ago by a very old man at a Harvest Supper at Homestall, Doddington, near Faversham, Kent.