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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 Roud number – "Roud num" – field may be used as a cross-reference to the Roud Folk Song Index itself in order to establish the traditional origin of the work. The database is recognised as a "significant index" by the EFDSS [ 4 ] and was one of the first items to be published on its web site after the launch of the online version of the ...
According to Roud and Bishop [3] Widely collected in Britain and Ireland, and in North America, 'The Cruel Mother' has clearly struck a chord with singers over a number of generations. We will never know quite why, of course, but in performance the combination of the matter-of-fact handling of a difficult subject and the repeated rhythmic ...
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 ...
Text and/or other creative content from this version of was copied or moved into List of folk songs by Roud number with this edit on 15 November 2012. The former page's history now serves to provide attribution for that content in the latter page, and it must not be deleted as long as the latter page exists.
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.)