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T.W.H. CROSLAND

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SONGS AND BALLADS

MY SWETE SWETYNG

THINKING LORD VAUX When all is done and said, In the end thus

THE FALLING OUT OF FAITHFUL FRIENDS RICHARD EDWARDES In going

THE LOVER'S LUTE SIR THOMAS WYATT Blame not my Lute! for he

THE PASSIONATE SHEPHERD TO HIS LOVE CHRISTOPER MARLOWE Come

JOLLY GOOD ALE AND OLD JOHN STILL I cannot eat but little meat,

PHILLIDA AND CORYDON NICHOLAS BRETON In the merry month of May,

SPRING THOMAS NASH Spring, the sweet Spring, is the year's

MY MIND TO ME A KINGDOM IS SIR EDWARD DYER

DEATH THE LEVELLER JAMES SHIRLEY The glories of our blood and

YE LITTLE BIRDS THAT SIT AND SING THOMAS HEYWOOD Ye little

PACK CLOUDS, AWAY

SLEEP BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER Come, Sleep, and with thy sweet

SONG TO PAN

ASPATIA'S SONG

BEAUTY CLEAR AND FAIR JOHN FLETCHER Beauty clear and fair,

LET THE BELLS RING, AND LET THE BOYS SING

WEEP NO MORE

PAN

GOD LYAEUS

A BATTLE-SONG

MY LADY GREENSLEEVES ANONYMOUS Alas! my love, you do me wrong

MY TRUE LOVE SIR PHILIP SIDNEY My true love hath my heart, and

DIRGE JOHN WEBSTER Call for the robin-redbreast and the wren,

THE SHROUDING

CONTENT THOMAS DEKKER Art thou poor, yet hast thou golden

TROLL THE BOWL

SIR PATRICK SPENS ANONYMOUS The king sits in Dunfermline toun,

THE BEGGAR'S DAUGHTER OF BEDNALL-GREEN

THE BABES IN THE WOOD

ROBIN HOOD AND THE PINDER OF WAKEFIELD

THE NUT-BROWN MAID

SIR HUGH OF LINCOLN

THE GYPSY COUNTESS

THERE WERE THREE LADIES

THE HEIR OF LINNE

THE OLD AND YOUNG COURTIER

THE WINNING OF CALES

THE BAILIFF'S DAUGHTER OF ISLINGTON

CHEVY CHASE

THE BATTLE OF AGINCOURT MICHAEL DRAYTON Fair stood the wind for

SONG OF THE ENGLISH BOWMEN ANONYMOUS

WINTER WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE When icicles hang by the wall, And

INGRATITUDE

FIDELE

UNDER THE GREENWOOD TREE

SYLVIA

SONG

A SEA DIRGE

OPHELIA'S SONG

WHEN DAISIES PIED

IT WAS A LOVER

SWEET AND TWENTY

MUSIC

THE PEDLAR

SOLDIER'S SONG

DOUBT NOT

ARIEL

SIGH NO MORE, LADIES

THE SWEET O' THE YEAR

HARK! HARK! THE LARK!

OVER HILL, OVER DALE

ONE IN TEN

PUCK

LULLABY

SONG (2)

CHERRY-RIPE THOMAS CAMPION There is a garden in her face, Where

LAURA

COME, CHEERFUL DAY

FOLLOW THY FAIR SUN

TO CELIA BEN JONSON Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I

SONG FROM 'CYNTHIA'S REVELS'

THE SWEET NEGLECT

THE WEAVER'S SONG ANONYMOUS When Hercules did use to spin, And

THE HONEST FELLOW

ROBIN GOODFELLOW

TIME'S ALTERATION

SHALL I, WASTING IN DESPAIR GEORGE WITHER Shall I, wasting in

I LOVED A LASS, A FAIR ONE

CHRISTMAS

ASK ME NO MORE THOMAS CAREW Ask me no more where Jove bestows,

NIGHT-PIECE TO JULIA ROBERT HERRICK Her eyes the glow-worm lend

THE MAD MAID'S SONG

TO BLOSSOMS

TO DAFFODILS

JULIA

TO THE VIRGINS, TO MAKE MUCH OF THEIR TIME

TWELFTH NIGHT, OR KING AND QUEEN

THE BAG OF THE BEE

A THANKSGIVING FOR HIS HOUSE

TO PRIMROSES, FILLED WITH MORNING DEW

DELIGHT IN DISORDER

CHERRY RIPE

VIRTUE GEORGE HERBERT Sweet day! so cool, so calm, so bright

THE SPANISH ARMADO

A BALLAD UPON A WEDDING SIR JOHN SUCKLING I tell thee, Dick,

WHY SO PALE AND WAN?

GO, LOVELY ROSE! EDMUND WALLER Go, lovely Rose! Tell her, that

THE FROG HE WOULD A-WOOING RIDE ANONYMOUS It was the frog in

TO ALTHEA, FROM PRISON RICHARD LOVELACE When love with

TO LUCASTA, ON GOING TO THE WARS

YE GENTLEMEN OF ENGLAND MARTIN PARKER Ye gentlemen of England

THE FAIRY QUEEN ANONYMOUS Come follow, follow me, You, fairy

THE PRAISE OF A COUNTRYMAN'S LIFE JOHN CHALKHILL Oh, the sweet

HERE'S A HEALTH ANONYMOUS Here's a health unto His Majesty,

BLACK-EYED SUSAN JOHN GAY All in the Downs the fleet was

ANNIE LAURIE ANONYMOUS Maxwellton braes are bonnie, Where early

RULE BRITANNIA JAMES THOMSON When Britain first at Heaven's

WALY, WALY, BUT LOVE BE BONNY ANONYMOUS O waly, waly up the

SALLY IN OUR ALLEY HENRY CAREY Of all the girls that are so

THE BRAES OF YARROW WILLIAM HAMILTON Busk ye, busk ye, my bonny

THE SHEPHERD'S HOME WILLIAM SHENSTONE My banks they are

THE DIVERTING HISTORY OF JOHN GILPIN WILLIAM COWPER John Gilpin

THE 'ROYAL GEORGE'

BOADICEA

HEARTS OF OAK DAVID GARRICK Come, cheer up, my lads, 'tis to

AN ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF A MAD DOG OLIVER GOLDSMITH Good people

EDWIN AND ANGELINA

AULD ROBIN GRAY LADY ANNE BARNARD When the sheep are in the

WOO'D, AND MARRIED, AND A'. ALEXANDER ROSS The bride cam' out

THE BRITISH GRENADIERS ANONYMOUS Some talk of Alexander, and

HERE'S TO THE MAIDEN ANONYMOUS Here's to the maiden of bashful

BRISTOW TRAGEDY THOMAS CHATTERTON The feathered songster

MINSTREL'S SONG IN ELLA

THE PIPER WILLIAM BLAKE Piping down the valleys wild, Piping

THE TIGER

SCOTS WHA HAE ROBERT BURNS Scots, wha hae wi' Wallace bled,

FOR A' THAT

A RED, RED ROSE

COMIN' THRO' THE RYE

PHILLIS THE FAIR

AE FOND KISS

MY BONNY MARY

AFTON WATER

FOR THE SAKE OF SOMEBODY

WHISTLE, AND I'LL COME TO YE, MY LAD

THE DE'IL'S AWA' WI' THE EXCISEMAN

LASSIE WI' THE LINT-WHITE LOCKS

I LOVE MY JEAN

THE HAPPY TRIO

JOHN ANDERSON MY JO

MY WIFE'S A WINSOME WEE THING

DUNCAN GRAY

MY AIN KIND DEARIE O

THE THORN

JOHN BARLEYCORN

THE BANKS OF ALLAN WATER ANONYMOUS On the banks of Allan Water,

DEAR IS MY LITTLE NATIVE VALE SAMUEL ROGERS Dear is my little

A WISH

THE FAKENHAM GHOST Robert Bloomfield The lawns were dry in

THE KEEL ROW Anonymous

THE BLUE BELL OF SCOTLAND Anonymous Oh where, and oh where, is

THE LAIRD O' COCKPEN Lady Nairne The Laird o' Cockpen he's

CALLER HERRIN'

TOM BOWLING Charles Dibdin Here, a sheer hulk, lies poor Tom

BLOW HIGH, BLOW LOW

THE JOLLY YOUNG WATERMAN

THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

THE VICAR OF BRAY Anonymous In good King Charles's golden days,

THERE'S NAE LUCK ABOUT THE HOUSE William Julius Mickle But are

THE GIRL I LEFT BEHIND ME ANONYMOUS I'm lonesome since I

EDWARD! EDWARD! SIR DAVID DALRYMPLE 'Why does your brand so

O NANNY, WILT THOU GO WITH ME? THOMAS PERCY O Nanny, wilt thou

THE FRIAR OF ORDERS GRAY

THE INCHCAPE ROCK ROBERT SOUTHEY No stir in the air, no stir in

THE WELL OF ST. KEYNE

THE BATTLE OF BLENHEIM

FATHER WILLIAM

THE FLOWERS OF THE FOREST MRS. COCKBURN I've seen the smiling

LUCY GRAY WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Oft I had heard of Lucy Gray; And,

WE ARE SEVEN

SHE DWELT AMONG UNTRODDEN WAYS

I TRAVELLED AMONG UNKNOWN MEN

LOCHINVAR SIR WALTER SCOTT O, young Lochinvar is come out of

CORONACH

A WEARY LOT IS THINE

ALLEN-A-DALE

PIBROCH OF DONUIL DHU

SONG FROM 'THE PIRATE'

ROSABELLE

PROUD MAISIE

LORD ULLIN'S DAUGHTER THOMAS CAMPBELL A chieftain to the

THE SOLDIER'S DREAM

EXILE OF ERIN

YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND

THE BATTLE OF THE BALTIC

NAPOLEON AND THE SAILOR

THE PARROT

HOHENLINDEN

MEN OF ENGLAND

WHEN THE KYE COMES HAME JAMES HOGG Come all ye jolly shepherds

THE SKYLARK

THE YOUNG MAXWELL ALLAN CUNNINGHAM 'Where gang ye, thou silly

HAME, HAME, HAME

A WET SHEET AND A FLOWING SEA

MY NANIE O

CANADIAN BOAT-SONG THOMAS MOORE Faintly as tolls the evening

GO WHERE GLORY WAITS THEE

THE HARP THAT ONCE THROUGH TARA'S HALLS

RICH AND RARE WERE THE GEMS SHE WORE

THE MEETING OF THE WATERS

SHE IS FAR FROM THE LAND

BELIEVE ME, IF ALL THOSE ENDEARING YOUNG CHARMS

LOVE'S YOUNG DREAM

THE LAST ROSE OF SUMMER

THE MINSTREL-BOY

THE TIME I'VE LOST IN WOOING

THE LIGHT OF OTHER DAYS

THE DESTRUCTION OF SENNACHERIB LORD BYRON The Assyrian came

WHEN WE TWO PARTED

SONG (3)

WE'LL GO NO MORE A-ROVING

SHE WALKS IN BEAUTY

KING DEATH B.W. PROCTER King Death was a rare old fellow, He

SONG FOR TWILIGHT

THE BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE AT CORUNNA CHARLES WOLFE Not a

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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