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The Besom Maker

Heywood Sumner The Besom Maker & Other Country Folk Songs London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1888

Collected and illustrated by Heywood Sumner

The Besom-Maker: A Look at Heywood Sumner's folksong collection by Mike Yates

The Songs

The songs are referenced by page numbers.

1. The Besom Maker (Roud 910)
5. God Speed the Plough (Roud 1475)
9. The Wassail Song (Roud 209)
11. My Johnny Was a Shoemaker (Roud 1388; G/D 8:1848)
13. The Reaphook and the Sickle (Roud 1375)
15. Hobblety Robbelty How Now (Roud 117; Child 277; G/D 7:1282)
17. The Two Young Men of Kenilworth (Roud 764)
19. Forty Dukes a-Riding (Roud 730)
23. The Jolly Ploughboy (Roud 202)