Songs of the West / Folk Songs of Devon & Cornwall Collected from the Mouths of the People

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CONTENTS

ALPHABETICAL INDEX OF SONGS

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION

N o 1 BY CHANCE IT WAS

N o 2 THE HUNTING OF ARSCOTT OF TETCOTT

N o 3 UPON A SUNDAY MORNING

N o 4 THE TREES THEY ARE SO HIGH

N o 5 PARSON HOGG

N o 6 "COLD BLOWS THE WIND, SWEET-HEART"

N o 7 THE SPRIG OF THYME

N o 8 ROVING JACK

N o 9 BRIXHAM TOWN

N o 10 GREEN BROOM

N o 11 AS JOHNNY WALKED OUT

N o 12 THE MILLER AND HIS SONS

N o 13 ORMOND THE BRAVE

N o 14 SIR JOHN BARLEYCORN

N o 15 SWEET NIGHTINGALE

N o 16 WIDDECOMBE FAIR

N o 17 YE MAIDENS PRETTY

N o 18 THE SILLY OLD MAN

N o 19 THE MONTHS OF THE YEAR

N o 20 THE CHIMNEY SWEEP

N o 21 THE SAUCY SAILOR

N o 22 BLUE MUSLIN

N o 23 THE DEATH OF PARKER

N o 24 THE HAL-AN-TOW or HELSTON FURRY DANCE

N o 25 BLOW AWAY YE MORNING BREEZES

N o 26 THE HEARTY GOOD FELLOW

N o 27 THE BONNY BUNCH OF ROSES

N o 28 THE LAST OF THE SINGERS

N o 29 THE TYTHE PIG

N o 30 OLD WICHET

N o 31 JAN'S COURTSHIP

N o 32 THE DROWNED LOVER

N o 33 CHILDE THE HUNTER

N o 34 THE COTTAGE THATCHED WITH STRAW

N o 35 CICELY SWEET

N o 36 A SWEET PRETTY MAIDEN SAT UNDER A TREE

N o 37 THE WHITE COCKADE

N o 38 THE SAILOR'S FAREWELL

N o 39 A MAIDEN SAT A WEEPING

N o 40 THE BLUE KERCHIEF

N o 41 COME TO MY WINDOW

N o 42 TOMMY A' LYNN

N o 43 THE GREEN BUSHES

N o 44 THE BROKEN TOKEN

N o 45 THE MOLE-CATCHER.

N o 46 THE KEENLY LODE

N o 47 MAY-DAY CAROL

N o 48 THE LOVER'S TASKS

N o 49 LULLABY

N o 50 THE GIPSY COUNTESS PART I.

N o 50 THE GIPSY COUNTESS PART II.

N o 51 THE GREY MARE

N o 52 THE WRECK OFF SCILLY

N o 53 HENRY MARTYN

N o 54 PLYMOUTH SOUND

N o 55 THE FOX

N o 56 FURZE BLOOM

N o 57 THE OXEN PLOUGHING

N o 58 FLORA, THE LILY OF THE WEST

N o 58 FLORA, THE LILY OF THE WEST (2)

N o 59 THE SIMPLE PLOUGHBOY

N o 60 FAIR LADY, PITY ME

N o 61 THE PAINFUL PLOUGH

N o 62 AT THE SETTING OF THE SUN

N o 63 JOLLY FELLOWS THAT FOLLOW THE PLOUGH

N o 64 THE GOLDEN VANITY

N o 65 THE BOLD DRAGOON

N o 66 TRINITY SUNDAY

N o 67 THE BLUE FLAME

N o 68 STRAWBERRY FAIR

N o 69 THE COUNTRY FARMER'S SON

N o 70 THE HOSTESS' DAUGHTER

N o 71 THE JOLLY GOSS-HAWK

N o 72 THE SONG OF THE MOOR

N o 73 ON A MAY MORNING SO EARLY

N o 74 THE SPOTTED COW

N o 75 THREE JOVIAL WELSHMEN

N o 76 WELL MET! WELL MET

N o 77 POOR OLD HORSE

N o 78 THE DILLY SONG

N o 79 A COUNTRY DANCE

N o 80 CONSTANT JOHNNY

N o 81 THE DUKE'S HUNT

N o 82 THE BELL RINGING

N o 83 A NUTTING WE WILL GO

N o 84 DOWN BY A RIVER SIDE

N o 85 THE BARLEY RAKING

N o 86 A SHIP CAME SAILING

N o 87 THE RAMBLING SAILOR

N o 88 WILLY COOMBE

N o 89 MIDSUMMER CAROL

N o 90 THE BLACKBIRD IN THE BUSH

N o 91 THE GREEN BED

N o 92 THE LOYAL LOVER

N o 93 THE STREAMS OF NANTSIAN

N o 94 THE DRUNKEN MAIDENS

N o 95 TOBACCO IS AN INDIAN WEED

N o 96 FAIR SUSAN

N o 97 THE FALSE BRIDE

N o 98 THE BARLEY STRAW

N o 99 DEATH AND THE LADY

N o 100 BOTH SEXES GIVE EAR

N o 101 I RODE MY LITTLE HORSE

N o 102 AMONG THE NEW-MOWN HAY

N o 103 I'LL BUILD MYSELF A GALLANT SHIP

N o 104 COLLY, MY COW

N o 105 WITHIN A GARDEN

N o 106 THE BONNY BIRD

N o 107 THE LADY AND PRENTICE

N o 108 PAUL JONES

N o 109 THE MERRY HAYMAKERS

N o 110 IN BIBBERLEY TOWN

N o 111 THE MARIGOLD

N o 112 ARTHUR LE BRIDE

N o 113 THE KEEPER

N o 114 THE QUEEN OF HEARTS

N o 115 THE OWL

N o 116 MY MOTHER DID SO BEFORE ME

N o 117 A WEEK'S WORK WELL DONE

N o 118 THE OLD MAN CAN'T KEEP HIS WIFE AT HOME

N o 119 SWEET FAREWELL

N o 120 OLD ADAM THE POACHER

N o 121 THE EVENING PRAYER

NOTES ON THE SONGS

FOOTNOTES

Transcriber's Notes

Printer errors as well as inconsistencies in punctuation and diacriticals have been corrected without note. Inconsistencies in song titles as listed in the Contents and the Alphabetical Index have been left as they appear in the original.

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CONTENTS

SONGS
OF THE WEST

FOLK SONGS OF DEVON & CORNWALL

COLLECTED FROM THE MOUTHS OF THE PEOPLE

BY

S. BARING-GOULD, M.A.

H. FLEETWOOD SHEPPARD, M.A.

AND

F.W. BUSSELL, MUS. DOC. D.D.

UNDER THE MUSICAL EDITORSHIP OF

CECIL J. SHARP

PRINCIPAL OF THE HAMPSTEAD CONSERVATOIRE

FIFTH EDITION IN ONE VOLUME

METHUEN & CO. LTD.
36 ESSEX STREET W.C.
LONDON


Originally issued in Four Parts in 1890
First Published in One Volume in 1892
New and Revised Edition October 1905
Reprinted April 1913

TO
THE MEMORY OF
THE LATE
D. RADFORD, Esq., J.P.,
OF MOUNT TAVY,

AT WHOSE HOSPITABLE TABLE THE
MAKING OF THIS COLLECTION
WAS FIRST PLANNED
ALSO
TO THAT OF

THE REV. H. FLEETWOOD SHEPPARD, M.A.,
MY FELLOW WORKER IN THIS FIELD FOR TWELVE YEARS


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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