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  2. True Love Requited, or The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington

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    Hermes Nye on Anglo-American Ballads (1952) Richard Dyer-Bennet on Dyer-Bennett Vol. 2 (1956) Tony Wales on Sussex Folk Songs and Ballads (1957) Paul Clayton on Folk Ballads of the English Speaking World (1956) Dusky Ruthe recorded it as a single (1970) Jon Rennard on Brimbledon Fair (1970) Tania Opland and Mike Freeman on Choice Fare (2000)

  3. Category:English folk songs - Wikipedia

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    The Caller (folk song) Can't Help Thinking About Me; The Cat Sat Asleep by the Side of the Fire; Catcheside-Warrington's Tyneside Songs; Catcheside-Warrington's Tyneside Stories & Recitations; John W. Chater; Chater's Annual; Cherry Ripe (song) Child Ballads; The Cliffs of Old Tynemouth; Cob coaling; Cock a doodle doo; Cock Robin; A Collection ...

  4. Fair Annie - Wikipedia

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    Several Scandinavian variants exist: the Swedish "Skön Anna" and the Danish "Skjön Anna" (DgF 258).In them, the hero is a man who has newly become king, after the death of his father; his long-term mistress, Anna or Anneck, tries to get him to make her his wife, and the queen mother supports her.

  5. Pretty Saro - Wikipedia

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    "Pretty Saro" (Roud 417) is an English folk ballad originating in the early 1700s. [1] The song died out in England by the mid eighteenth century but was rediscovered in North America (particularly in the Appalachian Mountains) in the early twentieth century, where it had been preserved through oral traditions. [2]

  6. A Collection of Old Ballads - Wikipedia

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    A Collection of Old Ballads is an anonymous book published 1723–1725 in three volumes in London by Roberts and Leach. It was the second major collection of British folksongs to be published, following Wit and Mirth, or Pills to Purge Melancholy (published 1719–1720).

  7. Fare Thee Well (song) - Wikipedia

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    "Fare Thee Well" (also known as "The Turtle Dove" or "10,000 Miles") is an 18th-century English folk ballad, listed as number 422 in the Roud Folk Song Index.In the song, a lover bids farewell before setting off on a journey, and the lyrics include a dialogue between the lovers.

  8. Matty Groves - Wikipedia

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    It is listed as Child ballad number 81 and number 52 in the Roud Folk Song Index. [1] [2] This song exists in many textual variants and has several variant names. The song dates to at least 1613, and under the title Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard is one of the Child ballads collected by 19th-century American scholar Francis James Child.

  9. Category:Ballad collections - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... List of folk song collections; B. The Bagford Ballads; C. ... Reliques of Ancient English Poetry; Roxburghe ...