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Folk-Songs of the Upper Thames

Alfred Williams,
Folk-Songs of the Upper Thames
With an Essay on Folk-Song Activity in the Upper Thames Neighbourhood
London: Duckworth & Co., 1923;
Wakefield: S.R. Publishers, 1971
ISBN 0 85409 610 8

Songs

The Knight (Roud 20; Child 3)
Phyllis and the Shepherd (Roud 1225)
The Shearer’s Song (Roud 1226)
A-Begging Buttermilk I Will Go (Roud 1227)
Good Company (Roud 1228)
Gossip Joan (Roud 1039; TYG 54)
Music and Wine (Roud 1229)
How Happy Is the Man (Roud 1230)
The Derby Ram (Roud 126; G/D 3:645; TYG 59)
To Milk in the Valley Below (Roud 371)
Sweet Lovely Joan (Roud 592)
How I Could Ride! (Roud 1231)
The Bugle Played for Me (Roud 469; G/D 8:1696; Henry H732; TYG 58)
How Sweet is the Horn! (Roud 217; G/D 4:727)
Here’s a Health to King George (Roud 1232)
Now So Merry We Have Met (Roud 1233)
Come, Landlord, Fill the Flowing Bowl (Roud 1234)
Now We’ve Met Let’s Get Merry, Merry Be (Roud 615)
Here’s a Health to All Good Lasses (Roud 1235)
Come, Ye Friends of a Social Life (Roud 1236)
Of All the Brave Birds (Roud 496)
Christ Church Bells (Roud 1237)
Come, My Lads and Let’s Be Jolly (Roud 1238)
Harvest Song (Roud 2471)
John Peel (Roud 1239)
Tally Ho! Hark Away! (Roud 1182)
The Rosy Morn (Roud 21097)
The Red Rosy Morning (Roud 21097)
The Morning Was Charming (Roud 580)
When Morning Stands on Tiptoe (Roud 24896)
Old Towler (Roud 1240)
Chivvy, Chivvy O (Roud 1658)
Bold Reynolds (Roud 358)
Tally-i-ho in the Morning (Roud 1242)
Here’s Away to the Downs (Roud 1243)
The Three Jolly Huntsmen (Roud 796)
The Gipsies’ Glee (Roud 1244)
In the Days We Went a-Gipsying (Roud 1245)
The Lass of Richmond Hill (Roud 1246)
The Spotted Cow (Roud 956)
I’ll Weave Him a Garland (Roud 1247)
The Old Grey Man (Roud 362; G/D 4:815)
Grandma’s Advice (Roud 282; Henry H208)
The Maid’s Wager (Roud 34; Child 43; G/D 2:322; Henry H135)
Cold Blows the Winter’s Wind (Roud 51; Child 78)
Old Simon (Roud 1248)
Henry Martin (Roud 104; Child 250)
Three Jolly Bachelors (Roud 1249)
If You Will Walk With Me (Roud 573)
If Thou Wilt Walk With Me (Roud 573)
Fairlop Fair (Roud 1250)
Ere Around the Huge Oak (Roud 1251)
While the Raging Seas Did Roar (Roud 124; Child 289; G/D 1:27)
I Once Had Plenty of Thyme (Roud 3)
The Seeds of Love (Roud 3; G/D 6:1180)
The Broken-Down Gentleman (Roud 383)
Fathom the Bowl (Roud 880)
Push the Bowl About (Roud 1252, 5384)
The Jolly Shilling (Roud 1116)
Old Brown Ale (Roud 203; G/D 3:590)
Joke and Push About the Pitcher (Roud 1253)
Rosin the Beau (Roud 1192; G/D 3:698; Henry H698)
There Was an Old Couple (Roud 491)
Old Moll (Berkshire) (Roud 817)
Old Moll (Wiltshire) (Roud 817)
Dick Turpin (Roud 621; Laws L10)
Turpin and the Lawyer (Roud 621; Laws L10)
Dick Turpin’s Ride (Roud 856)
The Shepherd’s Daughter (Roud 67; Child 110; G/D 7:1465)
Here’s First to Those Farmers (Roud 876)
Prop of the Land (Roud 1254)
Toast (Roud 1255)
Will the Weaver (Roud 432; Laws Q9; G/D 7:1461; Henry H682)
Butter and Cheese and All (Roud 510; G/D 4:914)
IKeep My Dogs and Ferrets, Too (Roud 363)
Once I Was Single (Roud 437)
The Husbandman and the Servingman (Roud 873)
The Bold Dragoon (Roud 321; Laws M27)
Thames Head Wassailers’ Song (Roud 209)
Bold Sir Rylas (Roud 29; Child 18)
The Draggle-Tailed Gipsies (Berkshire) (Roud 1; Child 200; G/D 2:278; Henry H124)
The Draggle-Tailed Gipsies (Oxfordshire) (Roud 1; Child 200; G/D 2:278; Henry H124)
I Am a Pretty Wench (Roud 2538)
In Rockley Firs (Roud 2341)
The Squire and the Chambermaid (Roud 1257)
The Four Seasons (Roud 1180)
The Gipsy King (Roud 127)
By the Sweet, Silver Light, Bonny Moon (Roud 906)
Dame Durden (Roud 1209)
Spencer the Rover (Roud 1115; TYG 3)
Off to Flanders (Roud 1260)
The Bunch of Nuts (Roud 1261)
Froggy Would A-Wooing Go (Roud 16; G/D 8:1669)
Fair Eleanor and the Brown Maid (Roud 4; Child 73; G/D 2:212)
The Nobleman and the Thresher (Roud 19; G/D 3:437; Henry H622, H117; TYG 37)
In Former Times (Roud 1262)
My Old Wife’s a Good Old Cratur (Roud 1263)
The Sower’s Song (Roud 1264)
Old Ann Tucker (Roud 390)
Nothing Else to Do (Roud 1265)
The Fate of the ‘Ramillies’ (Roud 1266)
The Sweet Rose in June (Roud 1202)
Lord Lovel (Roud 48; Child 75; G/D 6:1232)
Lord Bateman (Roud 40; Child 53L; G/D 5:1023; Henry H470)
Southrop Poaching Song (Roud 1268)
Eynsham Poaching Song (Roud 1268)
The Green Broom (Roud 379; G/D 5:950; Henry H147)
Ground for the Floor (Roud 1269)
The Cottage Well-Thatched With Straw (Roud 1270)
Poor Old Horse (Bampton, Oxfordshire) (Roud 513; TYG 60)
Poor Old Horse (Blunsdon, Wiltshire) (Roud 513; TYG 60)
The Jolly Waggoner (Roud 1088)
Captain Barniwell (Roud 955)
The Outlandish Knight (Roud 21; Child 4; G/D 2:225; Henry H163)
The Duke of Marlborough (Roud 233)
Bold General Wolfe (Roud 624)
I Don’t Mean to Tell You Her Name (Roud 1271)
The Cuckoo (Roud 413; G/D 6:1157; Henry H479)
Twanky-Dillo (Roud 2409)
The Jolly Red Herring (Roud 128; TYG 31)
When Shall We Get Married? (Roud 313)
The Shepherd and the Maiden (Roud 1272)
Old Mother Hooligan (Roud 575; G/D 4:760; Henry H820)
Death and the Maid (Roud 32443)
The Bailiff’s Daughter of Islington (Roud 483; Child 105; G/D 1:168)
It’s My Delight of a Shiny Night (Roud 299)
Shepherd, Come Home to Thy Breakfast (Roud 1055; G/D 7:1513)
She Bundled Me Into the Hog-Tub (Roud 1273)
So Early in the Morning (Roud 1274)
The Rifles (Roud 587, V8363)
’Twas of Three Jolly Welshmen (Roud 283; G/D 2:283)
Brian O’Lynn (Roud 294; Henry H480a; TYG 27)
The Recruiting Sergeant (Roud 1275)
Down in the Lowlands There Grew a Tree (Roud 129; G/D 8:1668)
The Maid of the Mill (Roud 1276)
Richat and Robet (Roud 236)
One God Made Us All (Roud 815)
The Haymakers (Roud 153; Henry H697)
The Old Farmer and His Young Wife (Roud 114; Child 274; G/D 7:1460; Henry H21ab)
Tom and the Parson (Roud 1676)
The Weaver’s Daughter (Roud 1277; TYG 48)
The Miller and His Three Sons (Roud 138; Laws Q21; G/D 3:703)
When Arthur Ruled This Land (Roud 130; G/D 3:704)
The Miller of Dee (Roud 503; G/D 3:452)
March Away (Roud 542; G/D 8:1588)
The Parson and the Sucking Pig (Roud 574; TYG 45)
The “Golden Vanitee” (Roud 122; Child 286; G/D 1:37)
Then My Love and I’ll Be Married (Roud 3686)
Oh Dear, What Can the Matter Be? (Roud 1279)
You Gentlemen of England (Roud 18526)
We’ll Sit Upon the Gate (Roud 1280)
The Brave Old Oak (Roud 1281)
Ellen Taylor (Roud 1282)
Barbara Allen (Inglesham, Wiltshire) (Roud 54; Child 84; G/D 6:1193; Henry H236)
Barbara Allen (Bampton, Oxfordshire) (Roud 54; Child 84; G/D 6:1193; Henry H236)
We’re All Jolly Fellows That Follow the Plough (Roud 346; G/D 3:418)
My Bonny Girl (Roud 293; G/D 6:1141; Henry H215)
The Ripe and Bearded Barley (Roud 1283)
There Was an Old Farmer in Sussex Did Dwell (Roud 160; Child 278; G/D 2:320)
Little Brown Jug (Roud 725)
The Snail (Roud 1284)
The Wind Across the Wild Moor (Roud 155; Laws P21; G/D 6:1175)
Dolly and Hodge (Roud 1285)
Old Adam (Roud 728; G/D 7:1269)
Captain Grant (Roud 1286)
Two Babes in the Wood (Roud 288; Laws Q34)
The Long-Tailed Blue (Roud 1287)
Betsy Baker (Roud 1288)
There Was a Little Man (Roud 1289)
The Three Flies (Roud 1290)
Holly and Ivy (Roud 21093; TYG 23)
When Spring Comes In (Roud 439)
The Football Match (Roud 1291)
If Pretty Maids Could Sing (Roud 329)
Old Bob Ridley O (Roud 753)
John Appleby (Roud 1292)
There’s Nobody Comes to Marry Me (Roud 846; G/D 7:1385)
The Carrion Crow and the Tailor (Roud 891)
The Only Daughter (Roud 1293)
The Old Woman Tossed up in a Blanket (Roud 1297)
Three Maidens A-Milking Would Go (Roud 290)
Welcome the Harvest Home (Roud 1294)
What Can a Young Lassie? (Roud 1295)
The Dove (Roud 1296)
Georgie Barnell (Roud 546)
From the Brow of the Hill (Roud 1298)
Cease Ye Stormy Winds (Roud 22830)
Needle-Cases (Roud 1300)
Love, Farewell! (Roud 1301; G/D 1:101)
The Ploughboys (Roud 151)
My Jolly Waggoner, Drive On! (Roud 1302)
Bold Robin Hood (Roud 1303)
What’s the Life of a Man Any More Than a Leaf? (Roud 848)
Over the Moor and Over the Mountain (Roud 1304)
The Poor Wounded Soldier (Roud 1305)
My Own Dear Home (Roud 1306)
Shepherds Are the Best of Men (Roud 284)
The Faithful Plough (Roud 355; G/D 3:448)
The Leather Bottél (Roud 1307)
John Barleycorn (Roud 164; G/D 3:559)
The Fox and the Grey Goose (Roud 131; G/D 3:499; Henry H38)
The Downhill of Life (Roud 1308)
The Maltman and the Highwayman (Roud 1309)
The Old Woman Drinking Her Tea (Roud 1310; Henry H25a)
The Yorkshire Bite (Roud 2637; Laws L1; G/D 2:266; Henry H51; TYG 78)
The Blind Beggar’s Daughter of Bethnal Green (Roud 132; Laws N27; G/D 5:1061)
The Gold Watch (Roud 1311)
Jarvis the Coachman (Roud 1312)
The Gamekeeper (Roud 259)
Aboard the “Resolution” (Roud 492; Laws N4; G/D 1:180)
The Old Bedstead (Roud 1194)
Poor Tom Brown, of Nottingham Town (Roud 519; Laws L18; G/D 2:252)
The Hackney Coachman (Roud 1314)
The Guilty Sea Captain (Roud 478; Laws K22; G/D 2:191)
The Female Robber (Roud 1315)
The Struggle for the Breeches (Roud 1316)
Arthur O’Bradley O (Roud 365)
The Two Jolly Butchers (Roud 17; Laws L4; G/D 2:186; Henry H185)
When Joan’s Ale Was New (Roud 139; G/D 3:561)
Preaching for Bacon (Roud 1317)
It’s of a Pretty Fair Maid (Roud 289; Laws L3; G/D 2:268)
The Prickly Bush (Roud 144; Child 95; G/D 2:248)
The Prickly Brier (Roud 144; Child 95; G/D 2:248)
Betsy and Mary (Roud 1318)
Here’s Luck to All My Cocks and Hens (Roud 544; G/D 8:1666)
The One O (Roud 133)
Mowing Down the Meadow (Roud 143)
The Barley-Mow Song (Roud 944, 10722)
George Ridler’s Oven (Roud 1319)
Life Let Up Cherish (Roud 1320)
Little Dicky Milburn (Roud 1321)
Ninety Years of Age (Roud 619)
She Laid These Babes Across Her Lap (Roud 9; Child 20; G/D 2:193; TYG 73)
Robin Hood and Little John (Roud 1322; Child 125)
Good Brown Ale and Tobacco (Roud 475; G/D 3:580)
Come All You Saucy Landlords (Roud 1323)
Three Blind Mice (Roud 3753)
Here’s My Sister Betsy (Roud 802; G/D 7:1378; Henry H138)
Follow Me (Roud 1324)
An Ape, Lion, Fox and Ass (Roud 1325)
Jonathan and William (Roud 1337)
Old Simeon (Roud 1338)
Johnny the Ploughboy (Roud 594)
Chairs to Mend (Roud 1335)
Come Hither, Tom (Roud 1336)
’Twas You, Sir (Roud 1333)
Poor Johnny’s Dead (Roud 1334)
When Moggy by the Fire Sat (Roud 1330)
Morris Fragment (Roud 1331)
Children’s Song on Valentine‘s Day (Roud 1142)
May Song of the Children at Shilton (Roud 305)
Home to Dinner (Roud 1339)
Money Will Make the Mare to Go (Roud 1332)
The Fly and the Grashopper (Roud N.N.)
The Cobbler’s Bill (Roud 1327)
The Miser (Roud 1328)
Johnny Bowker (Roud 1329)
I’d Rather Have a Young Man (Roud 2897; G/D 7:1362)
Of All the Trades (Roud 286; G/D 3:488)
Fill the Foaming Horn up High (Roud 1341)
Well Rung Tom (Roud 1342)
Ill Fares the Family (Roud 1343)
Music and Love (Roud 1348)
On the Sign of an Old Wiltshire Inn (Roud N.N.)
Fill a Glass of Sherry (Roud 1344)
Slaves to the World (Roud 1345)
Hail! Smiling Morn (Roud 1346)
Roundelay (Roud 1347)