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Everyman's book of British ballads / edited by Roy Palmer
Publication details: J M Dent & Sons Ltd, 1980Description: 1 vocal score (256 p.)ISBN: 0460044524DDC classification: 780.1M Medium: For voice
Contents:
Who hung the monkey? Tall Stories : Who hung the monkey? ; The Congleton bear ; The doctor outwitted by the black ; The private still ; Wha's fu'? ; Sandy Dawe ; Paddy and the whale ; The Christmas hare ; Lancashire Dick ; Dixie's dog ; The pear tree ; The three merry travellers ; O'Reilly and Big MacNeil ; The old woman and her pig
Cold blows the wind - The supernatural : The wife of Usher's Well ; Cold blows the wind ; The lover's ghost ; The Holland handkerchief ; The cruel ship's carpenter ; The cruel mother ; Molly Bawn ; The grey selkie ; The twa magicians ; The maid on the shore ; Tam Lin ; The miner's dream ; The well below the valley ; The cherry tree carol
Bid the world adieu - Death and disaster : Sir Patrick Spens ; The mistletoe bough ; Lord Thomas ; Barbara Allen ; Andrew Lammie ; Lord Gregory ; The betrayed maiden ; The swan swims so bonny ; The Sheffield apprentice ; Little Montgrove and Lady Barclay ; Green and yellow ; The poor little fisher boy ; Rambling Robin
An awful story - Deeds of daring : The Lambton worm ; Dilly-dove ; Long John, Old John and Jackie North ; The 'Golden Vanity' ; Robin Hood and the Bishop of Hereford ; Johnnie o' Braidsleys ; McPherson's rant ; The draggletail gipsies ; The female sailor ; Grace Darling ; The proud tailor ; The rambling royal ; Erin-go-Bragh = Ireland for ever
Sentence passed - Crime and punishment : Lambkin ; Mrs Dyer, the baby farmer ; Young Henry Martin ; The bold 'Princess Royal' ; Jack Donahue ; Heather Jock ; The parson's peaches ; Young Johnson ; The highwayman outwitted ; Jack Williams the boatswain ; The sewing machine ; The slap-bum tailor ; Limbo ; The unfortunate lad
Take a warning from me - Cautionary tales : Prosser's betting shop ; Off to Epsom Races ; All for the grog ; Such a nobby head of hair ; Jock Hawk's adventures in Glasgow ; Maggie May ; Ratcliffe highway ; Down by the dark arches ; The bold cockney ; Rosemary Lane ; The fair maid of Islington ; Little ball of yarn ; The Ledbury parson ; Poison in a glass of wine ; There was a lady all skin and bone ;
My heart to you - True love and false : The magpie said, 'Come in' ; Amang the blue flowers and the yellow ; The banks of sweet Dundee ; Blackberry fold ; Lord Bateman ; The Indian lass ; The squire of Edinburgh ; The flower of serving men ; The watercress girl ; The bailiff's daughter of Islington ; The female highwayman ; Pretty Peg of Derby ; Lord Lovel ; Inside a white-washed hospital
Bound to be a row - Love and marriage : A noble riddle wisely expounded ; The widow that keeps the 'Cock Inn' ; Magherafelt Hiring Fair ; Bill the weaver ; The fellow that played the trombone ; His little wife was with him all the time ; Bound to be a row ; A woman's work is never done ; Marrowbones ; Get up and bar the door ; The cooper of Fife ; The devil and the farmer's wife ; Johnnie, my man ; The wild rover
Mark well the jest - Merry tales : The stark-naked robbery ; The lobster ; The cunning cobbler ; The auld wife and the peat creel ; The ragged beggarman ; The pretty chambermaid ; Jack the jolly tar ; The London 'prentice ; The cluster of nuts ; The stone cutter's boy ; The buttercups all grow ; Morgan Rattler, or, Darby O'Golicker ; The jolly tinker ; The Quarry Bank mashers ; The bush of Australia
| Item type | Current library | Collection | Shelving location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Printed music
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New Surrey Performing Arts Library | Song collections | Folk and world songs | 780.1M (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 09147817 |
Includes introduction
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