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Down Yorkshire Lanes

Paul & Liz Davenport: Down Yorkshire Lanes

Paul & Liz Davenport (editors)
Down Yorkshire Lanes
Folk Songs collected by R.A. Gatty, 1907-10
Yorkshire: Hallamshire Traditions, 2013
no ISBN

The Songs

The songs are referenced by page numbers.

Clara Thorpe & Dora Barnes—Bradfield

  1. Adieu My Lovely Nancy (Roud 165)
  2. It Hails, It Rains (Roud 608; G/D 5:983; TYG 36)
  3. Jolly Miller (Roud 733) (singing game)
  4. Harvest Home (fragment)
  5. Rhyme
  6. Jolly Sailors (Roud 12441) (singing game)
  7. Old Jack Akrun’s Mare (Roud 294; TYG 15)
  8. Old Martha Gomersall (Roud 21172; TYG 16)
  9. The Pride of Kildare (Roud 962; Laws P6)
  10. Round (There Was a Frog Liv’d in a Well) (Roud 16; G/D 8:1669)
  11. Twelve Days of Christmas (Roud 68; G/D 3:637)
  12. It Was One Monday Morning (Roud 191; TYG 2)
  13. Wessel Song (Roud 209; TYG 22)
  14. The Oughtibridge Hunt (Roud 24128) (fragments)
  15. The White Hare (Roud 1110; TYG 79)
  16. The Oughtibridge and Saddleworth Trail Hunt (Roud 24128)
  17. Jim the Carter’s Lad (Roud 1080; G/D 3:457; Henry H171)

George Sanderson and Un-named Gypsy—Braithwell

  1. It’s of a Young Damsel (Box on Her Head) (Roud 289; Laws L3; G/D 2:268)
  2. The Yorkshire Bite (Roud 2637; Laws L1; G/D 2:266; Henry H51; TYG 78)
  3. The Parson With the Wooden Leg (Roud 1508)
  4. We’re All Jolly Fellows That Follow the Plough (Roud 346; G/D 3:418)
  5. Seventeen Come Sunday (Roud 277; Laws O17; G/D 4:791; Henry H152, H793)

Elizabeth Smith (Gypsy)—Elsecar

  1. I’m Fading Day By Day (Roud 000, S179181)
  2. i Courted an Old Man (Roud 210)
  3. Green Bushes (Roud 1040; Laws P2; Henry H143)
  4. Seven Links to My Chain (Erin’s Lovely Home) (Roud 1427; Laws M6; G/D 6:1098; Henry H46)
  5. There Were Three Maids A-Milking (Roud 290)

George Hall, Jamie Grey—Hooton Roberts

  1. Bold William Taylor (Roud 158; Laws N11; G/D 1:169; Henry H213, H757)
  2. The Bonny Labouring Boy (Roud 1162; Laws M14; Henry H576)
  3. In Ollerton Town (Roud 10537)
  4. Make the Hay (Roud 5678)
  5. Maria Martin (Roud 215)
  6. My Sailor Boy (Roud 152; Laws M1; G/D 1:51)
  7. Riley the Fisherman (Roud 270; Laws M8; G/D 1:22; Henry H468)
  8. Spencer the Rover (Roud 1115; TYG 3) (fragment)
  9. Wait for the Waggon (Roud 2080)
  10. Three Gipsies (Roud 901; Laws Q31)
  11. Green Gravel (Roud 1368; Henry H48b)
  12. Wallflowers (Roud 6307; Henry H48d) (children’s game)
  13. Bingo (Roud 589)

Samuel Whitfield—Ravenfield

  1. Harvest Home (fragment)
  2. Old Horse (Roud 589) (fragment)

John Thomas, Schoolchildren—Stainton

  1. New Christians Awake (Roud 1503)
  2. Sing We All Merrily (Roud 13245)
  3. Oats and Beans (Roud 1380)
  4. Wind Blows Low (Roud 2649; Henry H48e)
  5. Poor Mary Sat A-Weeping (Roud 2118; G/D 8:1606)

John Coucom, Charles Drabble—Thrybergh

  1. Haymakers (Roud 13244)
  2. The Two Champions (Roud 2411)
  3. The Silvery Tide (Roud 561; Laws O37; Henry H77)
  4. A Frolicsome Sergeant (Roud 520; Laws J8; G/D 1:79)
  5. A Nobby Head of Hair (Roud 12612)

Elizabeth Duckenfield—Treeton

  1. Harvest Home (Roud 310)
  2. I Bought a Kettle (Roud 4251)
  3. John and Mary Took a Ride (Roud 24129)
  4. Lord Bateman (Roud 40; Child 53L; G/D 5:1023; Henry H470)

Mr John ?, Schoolchildren—Wickersley

  1. Old Horse (Roud 513; TYG 60)
  2. Old Tup (Roud 126; G/D 3:645; TYG 59)
  3. Wassail Song (Roud 209; TYG 22)
  4. Nelly Made a Pudding (Roud 13324)
  5. The Lincolnshire Poacher (Roud 299)

Frank Verrill—Staithes

  1. Billy and Sally (Roud 1672)
  2. The Bonny Light Horseman (Roud 1185; G/D 8:1584; Henry H122a)
  3. it Was One Winter’s Night (Roud 604; Laws N29; Henry H581)
  4. Thorneymoor Woods (Roud 222)
  5. The Whitby Lad (Roud 261; Laws L16; G/D 2:260; Henry H691, 202)