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The English Folk Dance and Song Society (EFDSS) listed 187,800 records in the growing Folksong database as at October 2012 (which total includes all of the songs in the Broadside database that have 'traditional' origins). [1] The purpose of the index is to give each song a unique identifying number.
The Roud Folk Song Index is a database of around 250,000 [1] references to nearly 25,000 songs collected from oral tradition in the English language from all over the world. It is compiled by Steve Roud. [2] Roud's Index is a combination of the Broadside Index (printed sources before 1900) and a "field-recording index" compiled by Roud.
"The Raggle Taggle Gypsy" (Roud 1, Child 200), is a traditional folk song that originated as a Scottish border ballad, and has been popular throughout Britain, Ireland and North America. It concerns a rich lady who runs off to join the gypsie
The Roud Folk Song Index is a database of over 240,000 [3] references to nearly 25,000 songs collected from oral tradition in the English language from all over the world. It began in around 1970 as a personal project, listing the source singer (if known), their locality, the date of noting the song, the publisher (book or recorded source), plus other fields, and crucially assigning a number ...
In May 2006, VWML Online was launched which hosts a number of the library's indexes to manuscript collections, together with its index to mummers' plays and the Roud Folk Song and Broadside Indexes, the largest of their kind in the English language.
All songs are traditional and were arranged by Martin Carthy. The Roud number refers to the Roud index of folk songs number and the Child number is from the Child Ballad numbering. "The Devil and the Feathery Wife" (Roud 12551) – 5:01 "Reynard the Fox" (Roud 1868) – 4:32 "The Song of the Lower Classes" (Ernest Charles Jones) – 4:48
The Roud number refers to the Roud index of folk songs number and the Child number is from the Child Ballad numbering. "Nothing Rhymed" (Gilbert O'Sullivan) – 2:10 "May Song" (Roud 305) – 2:49 "Swaggering Boney" (instrumental) – 2:46 "Lord Randall" (Roud 10, Child 12) – 4:16 "Long John, Old John and Jackie North" (Roud 3100, Child 251 ...
The question of "number of songs" is less easy to ascertain, but the sequence of Roud numbers currently goes up to 23,809. (There's no way I can see of automatically generating that figure, but I've found it simply through random searching in the Roud number field, and seeing where the numbers run out.)