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Cecil Sharp’s Collection of English Folk Songs

Maud Karpeles: Cecil Sharp’s Collection of English Folk Songs

Maud Karpeles (editor)
Cecil Sharp’s Collection of English Folk Songs
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1974
ISBN 9780193131255 (Volume 1)
ISBN 9780193131250 (Volume 2)

Songs in Volume 1

The songs are referenced by page numbers.

Child Ballads

The ‘Child’ title is given in parentheses in those cases in which it has not been used as the main title..

  1. The Lover’s Tasks (The Elfin Knight) (Roud 12; Child 2; G/D 2:329)
  2. The Outlandish Knight (Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight) (Roud 21; Child 4; G/D 2:225; Henry H163)
  3. The Dragoon And the Lady (Earl Brand) (Roud 321; Laws M27)
  4. Lord Randal (Roud 10; Child 12; G/D 2:209; Henry H814)
  5. The Cruel Mother (Roud 9; Child 20; G/D 2:193; TYG 73)
  6. The Banks of Green Willow (Bonnie Annie) (Roud 172; Child 24; G/D 6:1225)
  7. The Broomfield Wager (The Broomfield Hill) (Roud 34; Child 43; G/D 2:322; Henry H135)
  8. The Two Magicians (Roud 1350; Child 44; G/D 2:334)
  9. Lord Bateman (Young Beichan) (Roud 40; Child 53L; G/D 5:1023; Henry H470)
  10. The Cherry Tree Carol (Roud 453; Child 54; G/D 2:327)
  11. King Herod and the Cock (The Carnal and the Crane) (Roud 306; Child 55)
  12. Dives and Lazarus (Roud 477; Child 56)
  13. Sir William Gower, or Captain Glen (Brown Robyn’s Confession) (Roud 478; Laws K22; G/D 2:191)
  14. Lady Maisry (Roud 32444)
  15. Lord Thomas and Fair Ellinor (Roud 4; Child 73; G/D 2:212)
  16. Fair Margaret and Sweet William (Roud 253; Child 74; G/D 2:337)
  17. Lord Lovel (Roud 48; Child 75; G/D 6:1232)
  18. The Unquiet Grave, or Cold Blows the Wind (Roud 51; Child 78)
  19. Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard (Roud 52; Child 81)
  20. Barbara Ellen (Bonny Barbara Allen) (Roud 54; Child 84; G/D 6:1193; Henry H236)
  21. Giles Collins, or George Collins (Lady Alice) (Roud 147; Child 85)
  22. The Lowlands of Holland (Bonny Bee Hom) (Roud 484; G/D 6:1116; Henry H180)
  23. Lamkin (Roud 6; Child 93; G/D 2:187; Henry H735)
  24. The Maid Freed From the Gallows, or The Briery Bush (Roud 144; Child 95; G/D 2:248)
  25. Willie o’ Winsbury, or Lord Thomas of Winesberry (Roud 64; Child 100; G/D 5:999; Henry H221)
  26. The Bailiff’s Daughter of Islington (Roud 483; Child 105; G/D 1:168)
  27. The Knight and the Shepherd’s Daughter (Roud 67; Child 110; G/D 7:1465)
  28. Blow Away the Morning Dew, or The New Mown Hay (The Baffled Knight) (Roud 11; Child 112; G/D 2:301)
  29. Robin Hood and the Tanner (Roud 332; Child 126)
  30. Robin Hood and the Pedlar (The Bold Pedlar and Robin Hood) (Roud 333; Child 132)
  31. Sir Hugh (Roud 73; Child 155)
  32. The Death of Queen Jane (Roud 77; Child 170; G/D 3:693)
  33. The Burglar (Archie o’ Cawfield) (Roud 83; Child 188; G/D 2:244)
  34. The Gypsy Laddie, or The Wraggle Taggle Gypsies (Roud 1; Child 200; G/D 2:278; Henry H124)
  35. Waly Waly (Jamie Douglas) (Roud 18829; Henry H218ab)
  36. Geordie (Roud 90; Child 209; G/D 2:249)
  37. The Green Wedding (Katharine Jaffray) (Roud 93; Child 221; G/D 5:1024)
  38. Henry Martin (Roud 104; Child 250)
  39. Our Goodman (Roud 114; Child 274; G/D 7:1460; Henry H21ab)
  40. Bar Up the Old Door (Get Up and Bar the Door) (Roud 115; Child 275; G/D 2:321)
  41. Ruggleton’s Daughter of Iero (The Wife Wrapt in Wether’s Skin) (Roud 117; Child 277; G/D 7:1282)
  42. The Farmer’s Curst Wife (Roud 160; Child 278; G/D 2:320)
  43. The Dirty Beggarman (The Jolly Beggar) (Roud 118; Child 279; G/D 2:274)
  44. The Coasts of High Barbary (The George Aloe and the Sweepstake) (Roud 134; Laws K33; G/D 1:38)
  45. The Golden Vanity (Roud 122; Child 286; G/D 1:37)
  46. The Mermaid (Roud 124; Child 289; G/D 1:27)
  47. A Sailor From Dover (The Brown Girl) (Roud 180; Laws P9; G/D 6:1219; Henry H72)

Other Ballads and Narrative songs

  1. The Bold Fisherman (Roud 291; Laws O24; G/D 4:834)
  2. Nancy of Yarmouth (Roud 187; Laws M38; G/D 2:222)
  3. Death and the Lady (Roud 32443)
  4. Death and the Lady (Roud 1031)
  5. Shooting of His Dear (Roud 166; Laws O36; Henry H114)
  6. The Cruel Ship’s Carpenter (Roud 15; Laws P36A; G/D 2:201, 2:202)
  7. A Sailor By My Right, or Flame of Fire (Roud 568; Laws P34; G/D 2:341)
  8. Still Growing, or The Trees They Do Grow High (Roud 31; Laws O35; G/D 6:1222)
  9. Six Dukes, or The Duke of Bedford (Roud 78)
  10. The Lakes of Coulfin (Roud 189; Laws Q33; G/D 2:228; Henry H176)
  11. The Drowned Lover (Roud 466; Laws K17; G/D 6:1244)
  12. The Nobleman’s Wedding, or All Round My Hat (Roud 567; Laws P31; G/D 6:1199; Henry H60ab)
  13. The False Bride, or The Week Before Easter (Roud 154; G/D 6:1198)
  14. The Three Butchers (Roud 17; Laws L4; G/D 2:186; Henry H185)
  15. Bruton Town (Roud 18; Laws M32)
  16. The Constant Farmer’s Son (Roud 675; Laws M33; G/D 2:221; Henry H806)
  17. Edwin in the Lowlands Low (Roud 182; Laws M34; G/D 2:189; Henry H113)
  18. James MacDonald (Roud 1412; Laws P38; G/D 2:204)
  19. The Miller’s Apprentice, or The Oxford Girl (Roud 263; Laws P35; G/D 2:200)
  20. The Oxford Murder (Roud 1313)
  21. Floating Down the Tide (Roud 1414; G/D 6:1155)
  22. Mary in the Silvery Tide (Roud 561; Laws O37; Henry H77)
  23. Maria Martin (Roud 215)
  24. The Jealous Lover, or In Oxford City (Roud 218; Laws P30; G/D 2:210)
  25. The Bold Lieutenant, or The Lion’s Den (Roud 396; Laws O25; G/D 5:1056; Henry H474)
  26. The Banks of Inverary (Roud 1415; G/D 6:1263)
  27. Young Barnswell (Roud 955)
  28. The Blind Beggar’s Daughter of Bethnal Green (Roud 132; Laws N27; G/D 5:1061)
  29. The Turkish Lady (Roud 8124; Laws O26)
  30. The Lost Lady Found (Roud 901; Laws Q31)

Thwarted Lovers

  1. Bedlam (Roud 578)
  2. Arise Arise (Roud 22620; Laws M4; Henry H722)
  3. The Bonny Lighter Boy (Roud 843; Laws M22; G/D 3:413, 6:1117)
  4. The Chain of Gold (Roud 1417)
  5. Betsy, or A Glazier’s Daughter (Roud 156; Laws M20; G/D 6:1094)
  6. Johnny Doyle (Roud 455; Laws M2; G/D 5:1020; Henry H137)
  7. Daughter in the Dungeon (Roud 539; Laws M15; G/D 5:1003; Henry H668)
  8. Locks and Bolts (Roud 406; Laws M13; G/D 5:1012)
  9. Erin’s Lovely Home (Roud 1427; Laws M6; G/D 6:1098; Henry H46)
  10. Rosetta and Her Gay Ploughboy (Roud 1060)
  11. Once I Courted (Roud 405; Laws M3)
  12. Reilly Sent to America (Roud 270; Laws M8; G/D 1:22; Henry H468)
  13. The Rolling Main (Roud 1428)
  14. William and Phyllis (Roud 1429)
  15. The Miser’s Daughter, or The Silk Merchant’s Daughter (Roud 552; Laws N10; G/D 1:177)
  16. Said the Father to the Daughter, or Our Ship She Lies in Harbour (Roud 1011)
  17. The Navvy Lad (Roud 588; G/D 1:89)

Love and Courtship

  1. Searching for Lambs (Roud 576; Henry H548)
  2. As I Walked Through the Meadows (Roud 594)
  3. The Shepherd and His Fife (Roud 1433)
  4. A Farmer’s Son So Sweet (Roud 1431)
  5. The Shepherdess and the Sailor (Roud 959; Laws O8; G/D 5:968; Henry H104)
  6. Searching for Young Lambs, or A Long and Wishing Eye (Roud 1437; Laws O9; G/D 5:966)
  7. The Sweet Nightingale (Roud 356)
  8. The Sweet Nightingale (Roud 371)
  9. Welcome In Young Shepherd, or The Pleasant Month of May (Roud 1432)
  10. The Rose in June, or Let It Be Early, Late, or Soon (Roud 1202)
  11. Limady (Roud 193)
  12. The Crystal Spring (Roud 1391)
  13. Master Kilby (Roud 1434)
  14. The Foggy Dew (Roud 558; Laws O3; G/D 7:1495)
  15. Forty Long Miles, or It Rains, It Hails (Roud 608; G/D 5:983; TYG 36)
  16. Seventeen Come Sunday (Roud 277; Laws O17; G/D 4:791; Henry H152, H793)
  17. Hares on the Mountains, or Sally My Dear (Roud 329)
  18. Dabbling in the Dew (Roud 298; G/D 4:812)
  19. Gently Johnny My Jingalo (Roud 5586; G/D 7:1412)
  20. Raking of Hay (Roud 855)
  21. Ripest Apples (Roud 542; G/D 8:1588)
  22. Three Maids A-Milking (Roud 290)
  23. The Brickster (Roud 971)
  24. Green Broom (Roud 379; G/D 5:950; Henry H147)
  25. The Green Mossy Banks of the Lea (Roud 987; Laws O15)
  26. Mowing the Barley, or Lawyer Lee (Roud 922)
  27. The Sign of the Bonny Blue Bell (Roud 579)
  28. A Cornish Young Man (Roud 595)
  29. My Man John (Roud 573)
  30. The Keys of Canterbury (Roud 573)
  31. My True Love Is Lost (Roud 587)
  32. Farewell, Lads and Lasses (Roud 593)
  33. The First of May, or The Month of May (Roud 1438)
  34. The Blackbird (Roud 387; Henry H79)
  35. The Irish Girl (Roud 308; G/D 5:946; Henry H711)
  36. Pretty Miss, Will You Wed (Roud 1436)
  37. Write Me Down Ye Powers Above (Roud 381; G/D 5:980)

Lovers’ Farewell

  1. The True Lover’s Farewell, or The Little Turtle Dove (Roud 422)
  2. High Germany (1), or The Rout Has Now Begun (Roud 904; G/D 1:96)
  3. High Germany (2), or The King’s Command Must Be Obeyed (Roud 1445)
  4. Pretty Sally (Roud 1446; Henry H780)
  5. Adieu, My Lovely Nancy (Roud 165)
  6. Pretty Nancy of London (Roud 407)
  7. British Man-of-War (Roud 372)
  8. Farewell My Dearest Nancy (Roud 527; Laws K14; Henry H755)
  9. Lisbon (Roud 551; Laws N8; G/D 1:63; Henry H561)
  10. Blackbirds and Thrushes (Roud 12657)
  11. Our Captain Cried All Hands (Roud 602)
  12. Sweet Susan (Roud 1447)
  13. Tarry Trousers (Roud 427)

Lovers’ Return

  1. The Dark Eyed Sailor, or Phoebe and Her Dark Eyed Sailor (Roud 265; Laws N35; G/D 5:1037; Henry H232)
  2. The Broken Token, or The Young Single Sailor (Roud 264; Laws N42; G/D 5:1038, 6:1201; Henry H471, H818)
  3. Pretty Caroline (Roud 1448)
  4. Faithful Nancy, or One Fine Summer’s Morning (Roud 1449)
  5. Beautiful Nancy (Roud 18525)
  6. The Banks of Claudy (Roud 266; Laws N40; G/D 5:1036; Henry H5, H693)
  7. Mantle of Green, or Famed Waterloo (Roud 714; Laws N38; G/D 5:1033; Henry H76)
  8. Sweet Jenny of the Moor (Roud 581; Laws N34; G/D 5:1050; Henry H107)
  9. The Sailor From Sea (Roud 1450)
  10. The Watchet Sailor (Roud 917; Laws P4)

False Hearted Lovers and Seducers

  1. The Seeds of Love, or The Sprig of Thyme (Roud 3)
  2. My Bonny, Bonny Boy (Roud 293; G/D 6:1141; Henry H215)
  3. Green Bushes (Roud 1040; Laws P2; Henry H143)
  4. A Brisk Young Lover (Roud 60; Laws P25; G/D 6:1169, 6:1170; Henry H683)
  5. Sheffield Park (Roud 860)
  6. The Sweet Primeroses (Roud 586; G/D 8:1841)
  7. A Shoemaker Courted Me (Roud 816)
  8. The Pride of Kildare (Roud 962; Laws P6)
  9. Early, Early in the Spring (Roud 152; Laws M1; G/D 1:51)
  10. Through the Woods, or Down in the Groves (Roud 1478)
  11. The Cuckoo (Roud 413; G/D 6:1157; Henry H479)
  12. The Americans Have Stolen My True Love Away (Roud 587)
  13. The Chaps of Cocaigny, or The Boys of Kilkenny (Roud 1451)
  14. I Wish I Had Never Known (Roud 1452)
  15. The Orange and Blue, or Green Grows the Laurel (Roud 279; G/D 6:1138; Henry H165ab, H624)
  16. Once I Had a Sweetheart, or Sally Sat A-Weeping (Roud 170)
  17. Maids A-Rushing, or Underneath Her Apron (Roud 899; G/D 7:1493)
  18. The Bold Grenadier, or The Nightingale (Roud 140; Laws P14; TYG 34)
  19. The Sentry (Roud 178; G/D 7:1471)
  20. The Shannon Side, or Captain Thunderbolt (Roud 1453)
  21. Down by the Riverside, or I Am Too Young (Roud 564; Laws P18)
  22. As I Walked Out One May Morning, or Tippling Over the Plain (Roud 1003; G/D 7:1311)
  23. No, My Love, Not I (Roud 1403)
  24. Glastonbury Town (Roud 945; G/D 1:52)
  25. Valentine’s Day (Roud 945; G/D 1:52)
  26. Rosemary Lane, or The Oak and the Ash (Roud 269; Laws K43; G/D 7:1429; TYG 10)
  27. The Hazelbury Girl (Roud 364)
  28. Betsy Wilson, or Betsy Watson (Roud 1493; G/D 6:1160; TYG 74)
  29. At Seventeen Years of Age (Roud 1479)
  30. No Sir, or O No John (Roud 146)
  31. Jack the Jolly Tar (Roud 511; Laws K40)
  32. Cold Blow and a Rainy Night (Roud 135; G/D 4:778)
  33. The Miller and the Lass (Roud 1128)
  34. Bibberly Town, or The Tinker Behind the Door (Roud 585; TYG 21)
  35. The Devil’s in the Girl (Roud 1480)
  36. The Liverpool Landlady (Roud 19107)

Songs in Volume 2

Cuckolds

  1. The Boatsman and the Tailor (Roud 570; Laws Q8; G/D 7:1432; Henry H604)
  2. The Cobbler and the Butcher (Roud 174)
  3. The Poor Couple (Roud 491)
  4. Man From Dover (Roud 665)
  5. Will the Weaver (Roud 432; Laws Q9; G/D 7:1461; Henry H682)
  6. The Sea Captain (Roud 947; Laws Q12; G/D 7:1502)

Burdens of Single and Married Life

  1. Whistle, Daughter, Whistle (Roud 1570; G/D 7:1334)
  2. The Fit’s Come on Me Now (Roud 441)
  3. The Unmarried Maiden’s Lament (Roud 802; G/D 7:1378; Henry H138)
  4. My Mother Bid Me (Roud 362; G/D 4:815)
  5. An Old Man He Courted Me (Roud 2897; G/D 7:1362)
  6. Never Marry an Old Man (Roud 210)
  7. The Holly Twig (Roud 433; Laws Q6)
  8. Robin-a-Thrush (Roud 2792; TYG 1)
  9. The Brisk Young Bachelor (Roud 1572; G/D 7:1291)
  10. You Bachelors You Know, or You Married Men (Roud 2399)
  11. The Old Man and His Wife, or The Drummer (Roud 281; Laws Q1; Henry H702)
  12. A Woman’s Work Is Never Done (Roud 2340)
  13. The Rich Old Lady, or Johnny Sands (Roud 183; Laws Q2; G/D 2:318; Henry H174; TYG 6)
  14. The Devonshire Farmer’s Daughter, or The Highwayman Outwitted (Roud 2638; Laws L2)
  15. Box Upon Her Head, or The Undaunted Female (Roud 289; Laws L3; G/D 2:268)
  16. The Crafty Maid’s Policy (Roud 1624)
  17. The Banks of Sweet Dundee (Roud 148; Laws M25; G/D 2:224)
  18. Sweet Lovely Joan (Roud 592)
  19. Pretty Betsy the Milkmaid, or Blackberry Fold (Roud 559; Laws O10)
  20. William Taylor (Roud 158; Laws N11; G/D 1:169; Henry H213, H757)
  21. The Press Gang, or In London Fair City (Roud 601; Laws N6; G/D 1:174; Henry H108a)
  22. Polly Oliver (Roud 367; Laws N14; Henry H166)
  23. The Female Cabin Boy (Roud 239; Laws N13; G/D 1:181)
  24. The Simple Ploughboy, or The Pretty Ploughboy (Roud 186; Laws M24; G/D 1:170; Henry H105)
  25. The Golden Glove, or Dog and Gun (Roud 141; Laws N20; G/D 1:166; Henry H524)
  26. Sovay Sovay, or The Female Highwayman (Roud 7; Laws N21; Henry H35)
  27. Poor Nell and the Chimney Sweep (Roud 17773)
  28. The Councillor’s Daughter, or The Lawyer Outwitted (Roud 188)
  29. Sweet Kitty (Roud 1349)
  30. The Basket of Eggs (Roud 377; G/D 2:307)
  31. Bung Yer Eye (Roud 2404; G/D 2:304, Henry H700)
  32. The Oyster Girl (Roud 875; Laws Q13; G/D 2:304; Henry H725)
  33. Riding Down to Portsmouth (Roud 1534)

Rakes, Robbers, and Highywaymen

  1. The Tarpaulin Jacket, or The Rakish Young Fellow (Roud 829)
  2. St. James’s Hospital, or The Sailor Cut Down in His Prime (Roud 2; Laws Q26; G/D 7:1404)
  3. Rosin the Beau (Roud 1192; G/D 3:698; Henry H698)
  4. My Parents and I Could Never Agree (Roud 2405; Henry H223)
  5. The Deserter (Roud 493; G/D 1:83)
  6. Fanny Blair (Roud 1393)
  7. I Kept a Pack of Hounds, or The Broken-Down Gentleman (Roud 383)
  8. Adieu to Old England, or Once I Could Ride in My Coach (Roud 1703; G/D 6:1083)
  9. Botany Bay (Roud 261; Laws L16; G/D 2:260; Henry H691, H202)
  10. The Isle of France (Roud 1575)
  11. Van Diemen’s Land (Roud 519; Laws L18; G/D 2:252)
  12. Jack Hall (Roud 369; Laws L5)
  13. Jack Williams, or Boatman by My Trade (Roud 1906; Laws L17)
  14. Salisbury Plain (Roud 1487)
  15. The Rigs of London Town (Roud 868; G/D 2:299)
  16. The Rambling Boy, or In Newry City (Roud 490; Laws L12; G/D 2:260)
  17. Dick Turpin Hero (Roud 621; Laws L10)
  18. Brennan on the Moor (Roud 476; Laws L7; G/D 2:258)
  19. Captain Grant (Roud 1286)

Country Life

  1. John Barleycorn (Roud 164; G/D 3:559)
  2. It’s a Rosebud in June (Roud 812)
  3. The Lark in the Morn (Roud 151)
  4. A Sweet Country Life (Roud 2406)
  5. The Jolly Brothers, or The Jolly Ploughboy (Roud 202)
  6. The Painful Plough (Roud 355; G/D 3:448)
  7. All Jolly Fellows That Follow the Plough (Roud 346; G/D 3:418)
  8. Sheep Shearing (Roud 1582)
  9. Once I Was a Shepherd Boy (Roud 2407)
  10. Shepherds Are the Best of Men, or The Stormy Winds Do Blow (Roud 284)
  11. The Jolly Waggoner (Roud 1088)
  12. The Carter (Roud 2408)
  13. Twankydillo (Roud 2409)
  14. The Nobleman and Thresherman (Roud 19; G/D 3:437; Henry H622, H117; TYG 37)
  15. The Husbandman and Serving Man (Roud 873)
  16. Bingo (Roud 589)
  17. Sheep Shearing Toast (1), or Here’s a Health to the Master (Roud 310)
  18. Sheep Shearing Toast (2), or We’ll Reap and Mow (Roud 310)
  19. Horn, Boys, Horn or So Selfish Runs the Hare (A Toast) (Roud 2455)
  20. Bird Starver’s Cry (Roud 1730)

Sports and Pastimes

  1. The Duke’s Hunting Song (Roud 584; TYG 76)
  2. Bold Reynard the Fox (Roud 358)
  3. The Cheerful Arn, or When Bucks A-Hunting Go (Roud 217; G/D 4:727)
  4. Hunting the Hare (Roud 1181)
  5. The Keeper (Roud 1519)
  6. Thorney Moor Woods (Roud 222)
  7. The Hearty Poacher, or Hares and Plantations (Roud 363)
  8. The Sheep Stealer (Roud 2410)
  9. The Hearty Good Fellow (Roud 393)
  10. The Game of Cards (Roud 232)
  11. Bold Robinson (Roud 2411)
  12. Creeping Jane (Roud 1012; Laws Q23)
  13. The Little Dun Mare (Roud 176)
  14. Bridgwater Fair (Roud 1571)
  15. Brimbledown Fair (Roud 171; G/D 7:1485)

Sailors and Sea Songs

  1. Bold Nelson’s Praise (Roud 1574)
  2. Admiral Benbow (Roud 227)
  3. The Bold Princess Royal (Roud 528; Laws K29; G/D 1:47)
  4. The Britannia and the Union (Roud 492; Laws N4; G/D 1:180)
  5. The Chesapeake and Shannon (Roud 1583; Laws J20)
  6. The London Man o’ War, or The Royal Delamore (Roud 690; G/D 1:41; Henry H560)
  7. Come All You Bold Britons (Roud 296)
  8. Spanish Ladies (Roud 687)
  9. Cape Horn (Roud 4706; Henry H539)
  10. The Wreck of the Ramilly (Roud 523, 1266; Laws K1; G/D 1:28)
  11. The Greenland Fishery (Roud 347; Laws K21; G/D 1:9)
  12. The Ship in Distress (Roud 807)
  13. On Board of a Man of War O (Roud 662)
  14. The Captain’s Apprentice (Roud 835)
  15. ’Tis I Myself Have Done (Roud 811)
  16. Outward Bound (Roud 1104)
  17. The Rambling Sailor (Roud 518; G/D 7:1477)
  18. The Saucy Sailor (Roud 531; Laws K38; G/D 1:49)
  19. The Green Bed (Roud 276; Laws K36; G/D 1:48; Henry H779)
  20. Sweet William (Roud 273; Laws K12; G/D 6:1245)

Soldiers and War Songs

  1. Marlborough (Roud 233)
  2. The Bonny Bunch of Roses O (Roud 664; Laws J5; G/D 1:155)
  3. Napoleon’s Death (Roud 2419)
  4. General Wolfe (Roud 624)
  5. Drink Old England Dry (Roud 882)
  6. A Man That Is Stout (Roud 1731)
  7. Come Lovely Comrades (Roud 18683)
  8. The Croppy Boy (Roud 1030; Laws J14)

Humorous Songs

  1. Dicky of Taunton Dene (Roud 382)
  2. Robin’s Courtship (Roud 575; G/D 4:760; Henry H820)
  3. Harry the Tailor (Roud 1465)
  4. Arthur Bradley O (Roud 365)
  5. Joan to Jan (Roud 313)
  6. My Boy Willie, or Billy Boy (Roud 326)
  7. The Crabfish (Roud 149)
  8. Good Old Man (Roud 360)
  9. Robbie and Grannie (Roud 1579; G/D 3:577)
  10. The Mare and the Foal (Roud 1477)
  11. Midsummer Fair (Roud 137)
  12. Gossip Joan (Roud 1039; TYG 54)
  13. The Three Sons (Roud 130; G/D 3:704)
  14. The Cobbler and the Goose (Roud 2421)
  15. The Three Cripples (Roud 2422)

Nonsense and Nursery Songs

  1. The Derby Ram (Roud 126; G/D 3:645; TYG 59)
  2. As I Was Going to Banbury (Roud 2423)
  3. Balaam and Egg (Roud 1613)
  4. James Morrell Is Dead (Roud 764; TYG 4)
  5. The Foolish Boy, or The Swapping Song (Roud 469; G/D 8:1696; Henry H732; TYG 58)
  6. The Frog and the Mouse (Roud 16; G/D 8:1669)
  7. Three Jolly Huntsmen (Roud 283; G/D 2:283)
  8. The Carrion Crow (Roud 891)
  9. The Fox and the Goose (Roud 131; G/D 3:499; Henry H38)

Cumulative and Enumerative Songs

  1. The Twelve Days of Christmas (Roud 68; G/D 3:637)
  2. The Barley Mow (Roud 944, 10722)
  3. I Had a Little Cock (Roud 544; G/D 8:1666)
  4. Jolly Old Hawk (Roud 1048)
  5. The Mallard (Roud 1517)
  6. One Man Shall Mow My Meadow (Roud 833)
  7. The Tree in the Wood (Roud 129; G/D 8:1668)
  8. Dashing Away With the Smoothing Iron, or Driving Away With the Smoothing Iron (Roud 869)
  9. The Farmyard, or The Merry Green Fields (Roud 745)
  10. Joan’s Ale Was New (Roud 139; G/D 3:561)
  11. The Jolly Shilling (Roud 1116)
  12. The Red Herring (Roud 128; TYG 31)

Carols, Religious Songs, and Wassail Songs

  1. The Virgin Unspotted, on In Bethlehem City (Roud 1378)
  2. On Christmas Night, or On Christmas Time (Roud 597)
  3. Nowell Nowell (Roud 682)
  4. The Holy Day (Roud 2428)
  5. Come All You True Good Christians (Roud 815)
  6. Christmas Is Now Drawing Near (Roud 808)
  7. God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen (Roud 394)
  8. The Holly and the Ivy (Roud 514)
  9. The Joys of Mary (Roud 278)
  10. Our Saviour’s Love (Roud 663)
  11. The Leaves of Life (Roud 127)
  12. When Jesus Christ Had Lived (Roud 2113)
  13. The Black Decree (Roud 2429)
  14. As I Sat on a Sunny Bank, or I Saw Three Ships (Roud 700)
  15. The Holy Well (Roud 1697)
  16. The Bitter Withy (Roud 452)
  17. God Made a Trance (Roud 2112)
  18. The Sons of Levi (Roud 2430; G/D 3:470; Henry H146)
  19. The Truth Sent From Above (Roud 2109)
  20. Come All You Worthy Christians (Roud 815)
  21. Awake Awake, or New Year’s Carol (Roud 701)
  22. The Moon Shines Bright (Roud 702)
  23. A Happy New Year (Roud 1066)
  24. The Man That Lives (Roud 2110)
  25. The Sinner’s Redemption, or All You That Are Unto Mirth Inclined (Roud 2431)
  26. The Little Room (Roud 2120)
  27. The Twelve Apostles (Roud 133)
  28. Wassail Song (Roud 209)

Various

  1. Padstow May Song (Roud 305)
  2. The Streams of Lovely Nancy (Roud 688; Henry H520)
  3. The Sailor and the Soldier (Roud 350; G/D 3:685)
  4. The Beggar (Roud 1573)
  5. Poor Old Horse (Roud 513; TYG 60)
  6. A Brisk Young Widow (Roud 2438)
  7. The Acquittal of Thomas Halloran (Roud 2437)
  8. Loch na Garr (Roud 2436; G/D 3:508)
  9. The Alderman’s Lady (Roud 2533)
  10. A Sailor From the North Countree, or The Sailor and His Beautiful Wife (Roud 1504)
  11. Bonnets So Blue (Roud 819; G/D 5:992; Henry H644; TYG 80)
  12. Just As the Tide Was A-Flowing (Roud 1105)
  13. A Sailor Courted a Farmer’s Daughter (Roud 993; Laws O41; G/D 6:1093; Henry H634)
  14. The Orphan Boy (Roud 912; Laws Q29; G/D 5:961)
  15. The Orphan Boy (Roud 5695)
  16. The Orphan Boy (Roud 258; Laws Q28; TYG 126, 127)
  17. The Orphan Boy (Roud 618)
  18. The Sheffield Apprentice (Roud 399; Laws O39; G/D 5:998; Henry H31; TYG 71)
  19. Sweet Europe (Roud 272; G/D 4:831)
  20. The American Stranger (Roud 1081; G/D 7:1469)
  21. George Ridler’s Oven (Roud 1319)
  22. Old Woman Lame and Blind (Roud 2441)
  23. Come All Brother Seamen (Roud 1638)
  24. Baskets and Chairs (Street Cry) (Roud 2443)
  25. Lavender (Street Cry) (Roud 854)
  26. Young Lambs (Street Cry) (Roud 2444)

Fragments

  1. Arise and Pick a Posy (Roud 2445)
  2. Sing to Me, Johnny (Roud 2446)
  3. Three Little Tailors (Roud 2447)
  4. Dance to Thee Daddy (Roud 2439)
  5. Bonny Black Hare (Roud 1656; G/D 7:1427)
  6. ’Twas in the Month of August (Roud 2448)
  7. The Banks of the Clyde (Roud 1728)
  8. T Stands for Thomas, or J Stands for jack (Roud 419; Henry H593)
  9. A Shepherd Tuned His Pipe, or The Hermit (Roud 2449)
  10. Sweetly William (Roud 2450)
  11. Don’t You Go A-Rushing (Roud 330)
  12. I Sowed Some Seeds (Roud 914)
  13. Come Give Me a Slice of Your Bread (Roud 2451)
  14. The Flowering Fields, or The Sprig of May (Roud 2452)
  15. Have You Seen My Love Pass By (Roud 816)
  16. My Meadow for to Mow (Roud 833)
  17. Navigation (Roud 2453)

Review

Vic Gammon wrote in the conclusion of his essay Cecil Sharp and English folk music in Still Growing (London: EFDSS, 2003):

Cecil Sharp’s collection is a formidable one. It is many times greater than any other comparable collection. It is the real monument to his industry and dedication. The richness of the material is considerable, and it preserves some things that are unique. It is housed both at Clare College, Cambridge, and in the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library. It would be invaluable to have a proper critical edition of the collection, in the manner of the Greig-Duncan Folk Song Collection, but I doubt that I will see such a thing in my lifetime.

Sharp’s publications continue to circulate, and people make use of them. They are a part of our culture, but (whatever his apologists say) they cannot be taken as a wholly accurate record. Cecil Sharp’s Collection of English Folk Songs, edited by Maud Karpeles and published in 1974, was poorly edited, is selective, and while it gives an indication of the richness of the Sharp collection it remains less than totally reliable. Karpeles, as Sharp’s literary executrix, was also responsible for the promotion of his work and ideas in the time between his death and her own (in 1976). Indefatigable in her promotion of the Sharpian cause, she was responsible for new and revised editions both of Some Conclusions and of Fox Strangways’ biography. It is she, more than anyone else, who turned Sharp’s thought into a rather sterile orthodoxy.