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The songs are listed in the index by accession number, rather than (for example) by subject matter or in order of importance. Some well-known songs have low Roud numbers (for example, many of the Child Ballads), but others have high ones. Some of the songs were also included in the collection Jacobite Reliques by Scottish poet and novelist ...
The Traditional Ballad Index at the California State University at Fresno includes Roud numbers up to number 5,000 with comments on the songs, but draws on fewer sources. (For example, the Roud Folk Song Index shows 22 sources for "Hind Etin" (Roud 33, Child 41), while the Traditional Ballad Index list only one source.) [14]
The Folk Songs of Britain, Vol. IV: The Child Ballads 1: Thomas Moran: 1961: The Cruel Mother: Recorded 1954. Although the refrain of this version is that of "The Cruel Mother", the actual verses belong to a different song, Child Ballad no. 21, "The Maid and the Palmer" (aka "The Well Below The Valley") Four Strong Winds: Ian & Sylvia: 1964 ...
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 ...
Pages in category "Lists of folk songs" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. ... List of folk songs by Roud number; L.
The Roud Folk Song Index lists about 149 collected or recorded versions performed by traditional singers - 49 from England, 4 from Scotland, 2 from Ireland, 4 from Canada and 88 from the USA. [15] At least one collected version was published in the Folk Songs from the Kentucky Mountains (1917). [16]
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 ...