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The Crystal Spring

Maud Karpeles: The Crystel Spring

Maud Karpeles (editor)
The Crystal Spring
English Folk Songs Collected by Cecil Sharp
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1975
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987 (paperback)
ISBN 0-19-284018-5

The Songs

Ballads

  1. Lord Randal (Roud 10; Child 12; G/D 2:209; Henry H814)
  2. Lady Maisry (Roud 32444)
  3. Geordie (Roud 90; Child 209; G/D 2:249)
  4. Barbara Ellen (Roud 54; Child 84; G/D 6:1193; Henry H236)
  5. The Coasts of High Barbary (Roud 134; Laws K33; G/D 1:38)
  6. The Dragoon and the Lady (Roud 321; Laws M27)
  7. The Low Lands of Holland (Roud 484; G/D 6:1116; Henry H180)
  8. Willie o’ Winsbury (Roud 64; Child 100; G/D 5:999; Henry H221)
  9. The Outlandish Knight (Roud 21; Child 4; G/D 2:225; Henry H163)
  10. Lord Bateman (Roud 40; Child 53L; G/D 5:1023; Henry H470)
  11. Lord Thomas and Fair Eleanor (Roud 4; Child 73; G/D 2:212)
  12. The Lover’s Tasks, or Scarborough Fair (Roud 12; Child 2; G/D 2:329)
  13. Waly Waly, or The Water is Wide (Roud 18829; Henry H218ab)
  14. The Farmer’s Curst Wife (Roud 160; Child 278; G/D 2:320)
  15. The Knight and the Shepherd’s Daughter (Roud 67; Child 110; G/D 7:1465)
  16. Ruggleton’s Daughter of Iero (Roud 117; Child 277; G/D 7:1282)
  17. The Cruel Mother (Roud 9; Child 20; G/D 2:193; TYG 73)
  18. The Gypsy Laddie (Roud 1; Child 200; G/D 2:278; Henry H124)
  19. The Broomfield Wager (Roud 34; Child 43; G/D 2:322; Henry H135)
  20. Lamkin (Roud 6; Child 93; G/D 2:187; Henry H735)
  21. The Death of Queen Jane (Roud 77; Child 170; G/D 3:693)
  22. The Two Magicians (Roud 1350; Child 44; G/D 2:334)
  23. Fair Margaret and Sweet William (Roud 253; Child 74; G/D 2:337)
  24. The Maid Freed From the Gallows, or The Briery Bush (Roud 144; Child 95; G/D 2:248)
  25. Robin Hood and the Tanner (Roud 332; Child 126)
  26. Henry Martin (Roud 104; Child 250)
  27. The Golden Vanity (Roud 122; Child 286; G/D 1:37)
  28. Blow Away the Morning Dew (Roud 11; Child 112; G/D 2:301)
  29. The Banks of Green Willow (Roud 172; Child 24; G/D 6:1225)
  30. The Unquiet Grave, or Cold Blows the Wind (Roud 51; Child 78)

Lovers’ Laments

  1. The Drowned Lover (Roud 185; Laws K18; G/D 1:20; TYG 7)
  2. Still Growing, or The Trees They Do Grow High (Roud 31; Laws O35; G/D 6:1222)
  3. Blackbirds and Thrushes (Roud 12657)
  4. Bedlam (Roud 578)
  5. The Duke of Bedford (Roud 78)
  6. Sweet William (Roud 273; Laws K12; G/D 6:1245)

False-Hearted Lovers

  1. The Seeds of Love (Roud 3; G/D 6:1180)
  2. Green Bushes (Roud 1040; Laws P2; Henry H143)
  3. Once I Had a Sweetheart (Roud 170)
  4. The Bold Grenadier, or The Nightingale (Roud 140; Laws P14; TYG 34)
  5. The Banks of Sweet Primroses (Roud 586; G/D 8:1841)
  6. The Cuckoo (Roud 413; G/D 6:1157; Henry H479)
  7. My Bonny, Bonny Boy (Roud 293; G/D 6:1141; Henry H215)
  8. A Brisk Young Soldier, or Died for Love (Roud 60; Laws P25; G/D 6:1169, 6:1170; Henry H683)
  9. A Shoemaker Courted Me (Roud 816)
  10. The Chaps of Cockaigny (Roud 1451)
  11. The False Bride (Roud 154; G/D 6:1198)
  12. William Taylor (Roud 158; Laws N11; G/D 1:169; Henry H213, H757)

Love and Courtship

  1. Searching for Lambs (Roud 576; Henry H548)
  2. The Crystal Spring (Roud 1391)
  3. The Shepherd and His Fife (Roud 1433)
  4. Seventeen Come Sunday (Roud 277; Laws O17; G/D 4:791; Henry H152, H793)
  5. The Sign of the Bonny Blue Bell (Roud 579)
  6. The Rose in June, or Let It Be Early, Late or Soon (Roud 1202)
  7. Hares on the Mountains (Roud 329)
  8. The Fisherman (Roud 291; Laws O24; G/D 4:834)
  9. Arise Arise (Roud 22620, 22621; Laws M4; Henry H722)
  10. As I Walked Through the Meadows (Roud 594)
  11. The Bonny Lighter Boy (Roud 843; Laws M22; G/D 3:413, 6:1117)
  12. Master Kilby (Roud 1434)
  13. The Foggy Dew (Roud 558; Laws O3; G/D 7:1495)
  14. Mowing the Barley (Roud 922)
  15. Limady (Roud 193, 2445)
  16. Sally My Dear (Roud 32572)
  17. Green Broom (Roud 379; G/D 5:950; Henry H147)
  18. The Keys of Canterbury (Roud 573)

The Laver’s Farewell and Return

  1. The True Lover’s Farewell (Roud 422)
  2. Farewell to Charming Sally (Roud 1446; Henry H780)
  3. The Dark-Eyed Sailor (Roud 265; Laws N35; G/D 5:1037; Henry H232)
  4. Faithful Nancy, or One Fine Summer’s Morning (Roud 1449)
  5. The Watchet Sailor (Roud 917; Laws P4)
  6. High Germany (Roud 904; G/D 1:96)
  7. Pretty Caroline (Roud 1448)
  8. Jimmy and Nancy (Roud 18525)
  9. Farewell, My Dearest Nancy (Roud 527; Laws K14; Henry H755)

Murderers, Robbers, and Highwaymen

  1. Two Jolly Butchers (Roud 17; Laws L4; G/D 2:186; Henry H185)
  2. The Cruel Ship’s Carpenter (Roud 15; Laws P36A; G/D 2:201, 2:202)
  3. Jack Hall (Roud 369; Laws L5)
  4. Brennan on the Moor (Roud 476; Laws L7; G/D 2:258)

Sea Songs

  1. Bold Nelson’s Praise (Roud 1574)
  2. Admiral Benbow (Roud 227)
  3. Spanish Ladies (Roud 687)
  4. The Greenland Fishery (Roud 347; Laws K21; G/D 1:9)
  5. Jack the Jolly Tar (Roud 511; Laws K40)
  6. The Rambling Sailor (Roud 518; G/D 7:1477)
  7. The Saucy Sailor (Roud 531; Laws K38; G/D 1:49)

Country Pursuits

  1. The Lark in the Morn (Roud 151)
  2. John Barleycorn (Roud 164; G/D 3:559)
  3. Creeping Jane (Roud 1012; Laws Q23)
  4. It’s a Rosebud in June (Roud 812)
  5. Sheep Shearing (Roud 1582)
  6. The Farmyard (Roud 745)
  7. Bingo (Roud 589)

Carols

  1. The Cherry Tree Carol (Roud 453; Child 54; G/D 2:327)
  2. The Moon Shines Bright (Roud 702)
  3. The Virgin Unspotted (Roud 1378)
  4. The Holy Well (Roud 1697)
  5. As I Sat on a Sunny Bank, or I Saw Three Ships (Roud 700)
  6. Come All You Worthy Christian Men (Roud 815)
  7. Wassail Song (Roud 209)
  8. Nowell, Nowell (Roud 682)
  9. King Herod and the Cock (Roud 306; Child 55)
  10. The Holly and the Ivy (Roud 514)
  11. The Bitter Withy (Roud 452)
  12. Awake, Awake, or New Year’s Carol (Roud 701)
  13. God Bless You Merry Gentlemen (Roud 394)
  14. Dives and Lazarus (Roud 477; Child 56)
  15. On Christmas Night (Roud 597)

Humorous Songs

  1. The Crabfish (Roud 149)
  2. Dicky of Taunton Dene (Roud 382)
  3. Robin-a-Thrush (Roud 2792; TYG 1)
  4. Midsummer Fair (Roud 137)
  5. The Three Sons (Roud 130; G/D 3:704)
  6. Marrow Bones (Roud 183; Laws Q2; G/D 2:318; Henry H174; TYG 6)
  7. My Boy Willie (Roud 326)

Cumulative Songs

  1. The Tree in the Wood (Roud 129; G/D 8:1668)
  2. I Had a Little Cock (Roud 544; G/D 8:1666)
  3. One Man Shall Mow My Meadow (Roud 143)

Nonsense and Nursery Songs

  1. The Frog and the Mouse (Roud 16; G/D 8:1669)
  2. The Derby Ram (Roud 126; G/D 3:645; TYG 59)
  3. The Carrion Crow (Roud 891)
  4. James Morrell is Dead (Roud 764; TYG 4)
  5. As I Was Going to Banbury (Roud 2423)
  6. The Foolish Boy, or The Swapping Song (Roud 469; G/D 8:1696; Henry H732; TYG 58)
  7. Three Jolly Huntsmen (Roud 283; G/D 2:283)
  8. The Red Herring (Roud 128; TYG 31)
  9. Dance to Thee Daddy (Roud 2439)

Various

  1. Three Maids A-Milking (Roud 290)
  2. Death and the Lady (Roud 32443)
  3. Tarry Trousers (Roud 427)
  4. Whistle, Daughter, Whistle (Roud 1570; G/D 7:1334)
  5. Bridgwater Fair (Roud 1571)
  6. The Brisk Young Bachelor (Roud 1572; G/D 7:1291)
  7. The Keeper (Roud 1519)
  8. Poor Old Horse (Roud 513; TYG 60)
  9. Maids a-Rushing, or Under Her Apron (Roud 899; G/D 7:1493)
  10. Sovay, Sovay, or The Female Highwayman (Roud 7; Laws N21; Henry H35)
  11. A Brisk Young Widow (Roud 2438)
  12. The Streams of Lovely Nancy (Roud 688; Henry H520)
  13. The Pretty Ploughboy (Roud 186; Laws M24; G/D 1:170; Henry H105)
  14. The Fit’s Come on Me Now (Roud 441)
  15. The Beggar (Roud 1573)
  16. T Stands for Thomas (Roud 419; Henry H593)