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The Copper Family Song Book

The Copper Family Song Book

The Copper Family Song Book
A Living Tradition
Peacehaven: Coppersongs, 1995
ISBN 0 9526240 0 1

The Songs

The songs are referenced by page numbers.

  1. A Week Before Easter (Roud 154; G/D 6:1198)
  2. Adieu Sweet Lovely Nancy (Roud 165)
  3. Admiral Benbow (Roud 227)
  4. As I Walked Out (The Irish Girl) (Roud 308; G/D 5:946; Henry H711)
  5. Babes in the Wood (Roud 288; Laws Q34)
  6. The Banks of the Sweet Primroses (Roud 586; G/D 8:1841)
  7. Bold General Wolfe (Roud 624)
  8. The Bold Princess Royal (Roud 528; Laws K29; G/D 1:47)
  9. Brisk and Bonny Lad (Roud 606)
  10. Brisk and Lively Lad (Roud 2930; G/D 1:173)
  11. Brisk Young Ploughboy (Roud 1205)
  12. By the Green Grove (Roud 356)
  13. Charming Molly (Roud 1213)
  14. Christmas Song (Roud 1170)
  15. Claudy Banks (Roud 266; Laws N40; G/D 5:1036; Henry H5, H693)
  16. Come All You Bold Britons (Roud 1214)
  17. Come Write Me Down (Roud 381; G/D 5:980)
  18. Cupid’s Garden (Roud 297; G/D 5:970)
  19. Dame Durden (Roud 1209)
  20. Dick Turpin (Roud 621; Laws L10)
  21. Dogs and Ferrets (Roud 363)
  22. Gentlemen of High Renown (Roud 190)
  23. Hard Times of Old England (Roud 1206)
  24. Hark the Goddess Diana (Roud 5754)
  25. Heigh Ho, Sing Ivy (Roud 21093; TYG 23)
  26. Lord Thomas and Fair Eleanor (Roud 4; Child 73; G/D 2:212)
  27. No John No (Roud 146)
  28. Now All You Lads (Roud 1210)
  29. O Good Ale (Roud 203; G/D 3:590)
  30. Old Adam (Roud 728; G/D 7:1269)
  31. Old Threshing Song (Roud 874)
  32. Pleasant Month of May (Roud 153; Henry H697)
  33. Rose of Allendale (Roud 1218)
  34. Seamen Bold (Roud 807)
  35. Sheep-Shearing Song (Roud 879)
  36. Shepherd of the Downs (Roud 1215)
  37. Shepherds Arise (Roud 1207)
  38. Spencer the Rover (Roud 1115; TYG 3)
  39. Sportsmen Arouse (Roud 1216)
  40. Spotted Cow (Roud 956)
  41. Sweep Chimney Sweep (Roud 1217)
  42. Sweet Lemeney (Roud 193)
  43. The Battle of Alma (Roud 1221)
  44. The Bold Dragoon (Roud 321; Laws M27)
  45. The Echoing Horn (Roud 878)
  46. The Farmer in Cheshire (Roud 2638; Laws L2)
  47. The Fisherman (Roud 291; Laws O24; G/D 4:834)
  48. The Forsaken Mermaid (Roud 466; Laws K17; G/D 6:1244)
  49. The Fox (Roud 131; G/D 3:499; Henry H38)
  50. The Labourer (Roud 19; G/D 3:437; Henry H622)
  51. The Lark in the Morning (Roud 151)
  52. The Lawyer Bold (Roud 922)
  53. The Ploughshare (Roud 169)
  54. The Shepherd’s Song (Roud 1208)
  55. The Veteran (Roud 24926)
  56. The White Cockade (Roud 191; TYG 2)
  57. Thousands or More (Roud 1220)
  58. Twanky Dillo (Roud 2409)
  59. The Twelve Days of Christmas (Roud 68; G/D 3:637)
  60. Three Old Crows (Roud 5; Child 26)
  61. Two Young Brethren (Roud 202)
  62. Warlike Seamen (The Irish Captain) (Roud 690; G/D 1:41; Henry H560)
  63. The Barley Mow (When Jones’s Ale Was New) (Roud 139; G/D 3:561)
  64. When Spring Comes In (Roud 439)
  65. Wop She ’ad It-io (Roud 1212)