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Variants of The English And Scottish Popular Ballads (1882-1898)
Edited by Francis James Child [1825-1896] (Dover, 1965)
And archived at GEST Songs Of Newfoundland And Labrador
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V=Video

(Titles in parentheses are alternate titles from other sources.)

#001:   Riddles Wisely Expounded - Jennifer Gentle (V)
#002:   The Elfin Knight - The Cambric Shirt (A True Lover Of Mine)
#002G: The Elfin Knight - Scarborough Fair (V)
#004:   Lady Isabel And The Elf Knight - The Elf-Knight
#004:   Lady Isabel And The Elf Knight - The King's Daughter
#010:   The Twa Sisters - The Two Sisters
#010:   The Twa Sisters - The Bonny Busk Of London
#014:   The Bonny Banks O' Fordie - The Bonny Banks Of Ardrie-O
#014:   Bonny Farday - Bonny Farday (Virgie O) (V)
#020:   The Cruel Mother - The Babes In The Greenwood (V)
#026:   Three Ravens - Three Ravens (V)
#027:   The Whummil Door - The Keyhole In The Door
#037:   Thomas The Rhymer - True Thomas (V)
#046:   Captain Wedderburn's Courtship - Captain Wedderburn (V)
#049:   The Twa Brothers - The Two Brothers
#053:   Young Belchan - Lord Bateman (V)
#054A: The Cherry Tree Carol - Cherry Tree Carol (V)
#073:   Lord Thomas And Fair Annet - Lord Thomas And Fair Ellinor (V)
#074:   Fair Margaret And Sweet William - Fair Marjorie's Ghost
#078:   The Unquiet Grave - The Unquiet Grave (Cold Falling Drops Of Dew) (V)
#081:   Little Musgrave And The Lady Barnard - Lord Donald (Matty Groves) (Vx2)
#084:   Bonny Barbara Allan - Barbara Allen (Barbry Ellen) (V)
#085:   Lady Alice - Young Collins Green
#092:   Bonny Bee Hom - The Lowlands Of Holland
#093:   Bold Lamkin - Bold Lamkin
#095:   The Maid Freed From The Gallows - Gallows Pole (V)
#100:   Willie O Winsbury - Young Barbour (Collected by Greenleaf/Mansfield)
#100:   Willie O Winsbury - John Barbour (Collected by Peacock)
#100:   Willie O Winsbury - John Barbour (Great Big Sea) (Vx2)
#110:   The Knight And The Shepherd's Daughter - Sir William
#112:   The Baffled Knight - The Foolish Shepherd
#173:   Four Marys - Four Marys (Vx2)
#200:   Gypsy Laddie - Gypsy Laddie-O
#200:   Gypsy Laddie - Raggle-Taggle Gypsy (V)
#200:   Gypsy Laddie - Roving Gypsy
#200:   Gypsy Laddie - The Whistling Gypsy (V)
#209:   Geordie - Lovely Georgie
#213:   Sir James The Rose - Sir James The Rose
#221:   Katherine Jaffrey - Hembrick Town
#243:   The Daemon Lover - The Young Ship's Carpenter (The House Carpenter)
#248:   The Gray Cock / Saw You My Father - The Ghost Lover
#250:   Henry Martyn - Henry Martin (V)
#272:   The Suffolk Miracle - The Suffolk Miracle
#274:   Four Nights Drunk - Five Drunk Nights
#274:   Four Nights Drunk - Seven Drunken Nights (Joan Morrissey) (V)
#274:   Four Nights Drunk - Seven Drunken Nights (Dubliners) (Vx2)
#274:   Four Nights Drunk - Seven Drunken Nights (Traditional #1)
#274:   Four Nights Drunk - Seven Drunken Nights (Traditional #2)
#274:   Four Nights Drunk - Shickered As He Could Be (English Traditional)
#274:   Four Nights Drunk - The Traveler (English Traditional)
#275:   Get Up And Bar The Door - Bar The Door O
#278:   The Farmer's Curst Wife - The Devil And The Farmer's Wife
#278:   The Farmer's Curst Wife - The Farmer's Cursed Wife (3 Variants)
#283:   The Crafty Farmer - The Little Yorkshire Boy (The Yorkshire Bite)
#283:   The Crafty Farmer - The Yorkshire Boy (Well Sold The Cow) (3 Variants)
#286:   The Sweet Trinity - The Golden Vanity (Vx2)
#287:   Captain Ward And The Rainbow - Captain Ward
#289:   The Mermaid - Mermaid (Vx2)
#293:   John From Hazelgreen - Johnny From Hazelgreen

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Francis James Child was an American scholar, educator, and collector of what is known as the Child Ballads. His final collection was published as The English and Scottish Popular Ballads (1882-1898), and included 305 ballads from England and Scotland, and their American variants.





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