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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 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 ...
"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 gypsies (or one gypsy).
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]
1 song with 2 Roud numbers is A-OK! 1 Roud number with 2 of the same songs seems a bit awry for this article. I hope I was able to clarify my thoughts on the matter. -- AlexanderHovanec 14:43, 14 December 2017 (UTC) You say "1 Roud number with 2 of the same songs seems a bit awry for this article."
The Roud Folk Index is an index for the purpose of finding a folk song based on words or a phrase in the song, in much the way one would type "lyrics we come from the land of the ice and snow" into a search engine to find the song titled "Immigrant Song" by Led Zeppelin.
"Seventeen Come Sunday", also known as "As I Roved Out", is an English folk song (Roud 277, Laws O17) which was arranged by Percy Grainger for choir and brass accompaniment in 1912 and used in the first movement of Ralph Vaughan Williams' English Folk Song Suite in 1923. The words were first published between 1838 and 1845. [1]