Some performances of the ballads in the Child collection: Francis James Child [1882-1898] 1965, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads. Most of the links below no longer work.
Child 1: Riddles Wisely Expounded
Child 2: The Elfin Knight
Jim Copper, An Acre of Land, 1952
Martin Carthy, Scarborough Fair, Martin Carthy, 1965
Martin Carthy with
Bert Jansch, The Elfin Knight, Acoustic Routes, 1993, The Carthy Chronicles, 2001
Chris Wood, Martin Carthy, Roger Wilson, Scarborough Fair, Wood Wilson Carthy, 1998
Brass Monkey, An Acre of Land, Sound and Rumour, 1998
Child 3: The Fause Knight on the Road
Steeleye Span (with Martin Carthy), False Knight on the Road, Please to See the King (1971), Live at Last (1978).
Child 4: Lady Isabel and the Elf-Knight
Ewan MacColl & A.L. Lloyd, The Outlandish Knight, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, 1956
Martin Carthy, The Outlandish Knight, Shearwater, 1972
Child 5: Gil Brenton
Child 6: Willie's Lady
Ray Fisher, Willie's Lady, Folk-Legacy Records FSS-91, 1982
Martin Carthy, Willie's Lady, Crown of Horn, 1976
Child 7: Earl Brand
Ewan MacColl & A.L. Lloyd, The Douglas Tragedy, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, 1956
Child 8: Erlinton
Child 9: The Fair Flower of Northumberland
Child 10: The Twa Sisters
Ewan MacColl & A.L. Lloyd, Minorie, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, 1956
Roger Wilson, Two Sisters, Wood Wilson Carthy, an Appalachian version
Martin Carthy & Dave Swarbrick, Bows of London,
Life and Limb,
related to The Twa Sisters
Norma Waterson & Eliza Carthy, The Carthy Chronicles, 2001, in a live
US recording by Peter Bellamy,
1991
Child 11: The Cruel Brother
Dick Gaughan with Five Hand Reel, For A' That, RCA PL 25066, 1977
Martin Simpson, Kind Letters, Topic TSCD553, 2005
Child 12: Lord Randal
Ewan MacColl & A.L. Lloyd, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, 1956
Martin Carthy, Shearwater,
and The Carthy Chronicles
Martin Carthy, Because It's There
Billy Boy,
treated as a sub-set of Lord Randal (according to Malcolm Douglas),
is on Martin Carthy's Sweet Wivelsfield. Billy Boy is also on Wood Wilson Carthy.
and on Eliza Carthy's Red Rice.
Dick Gaughan, Kist o' Gold, Trailer, LER 2103, 1976
Child 13: Edward
Ewan MacColl & A.L. Lloyd, My Son David, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, 1956
Child 14: Babylon or The Bonnie Banks o Fordie
Dick Gaughan, No More Forever, Trailer LER 2072, 1972
Nic Jones, Ballads, Fellside, FECD 110, 1997
Child 15: Leesom Brand
Child 16: Sheath and Knife
(See also: Child 15: Leesome Brand,
which includes the "sheath and knife" figure.)
Sheath and Knife is on Eliza Carthy's Heat Light and Sound.
Child 17: Hind Horn
Ewan MacColl & A.L. Lloyd, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, 1956
Bandoggs, Bandoggs, Trailer LTRA504, 1978
Maddy Prior, Flesh and Blood, Park Records PRK CD38, CD, UK, 1997
Maddy Prior, The Quest, Park Records PRK CD97, CD+DVD, 2007
Child 18: Sir Lionel
Ewan MacColl & A.L. Lloyd, Bold Sir Rylas, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, 1956
Waterson:Carthy, Rackabello, Common Tongue, Topic Records TSCD488 (CD, UK, 1996)
Child 19: King Orfeo
Steeleye Span, 1976
Frankie Armstrong, Young Orphy, Till the Grass O'ergrew the Corn, 1996
Child 20: The Cruel Mother
Ewan MacColl & A.L. Lloyd, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, 1956
Shirley Collins, False True Lovers, 1960; The Sweet Primeroses, 1967 (reissued on Fountain of Snow)
Martin Carthy, The Cruel Mother, Landfall, 1971
June Tabor, An Echo of Hooves, 2003
Child 21: The Maid and the Palmer
Frankie Armstrong, The Well below the Valley, Till the Grass O'ergrew the Corn, 1996
Martin Carthy with Steeleye Span, The Maid and the Palmer, Live at Last, 1978,
and The Journey, 1999
Martin Carthy with Brass Monkey, Brass Monkey, The Carthy Chronicles, 2001
Child 22: St Stephen and Herod
Related to St Stephen and Herod is Herod and the Cock which is on the Watersons' Frost and Fire.
Child 23: Judas
Child 24: Bonnie Annie
Banks of Green Willow is on Martin Carthy's Shearwater.
Child 25: Willie's Lyke-Wake
Ewan MacColl & A.L. Lloyd, Amang the Blue Flowers and the Yellow, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, 1956
Child 26: The Three Ravens
Child 27: The Whummil Bore
Child 28: Burd Ellen and Young Tamlane
Child 29: The Boy and the Mantle
Child 30: King Arthur and King Cornwall
Child 31: The Marriage of Sir Gawain
Child 32: King Henry
King Henry is on Martin Carthy's Sweet Wivelsfield,
and on The Carthy Chronicles (2001).
Child 33: Kempy Kay
King Knapperty is on Martin Carthy's Crown of Horn.
Child 34: Kemp Owyne
Child 35: Alison Gross
Steeleye Span, Parcel of Rogues
Child 36: The Laily Worm and the Machrel of the Sea
Child 37: Thomas the Rhymer
Ewan MacColl & A.L. Lloyd, Thomas Rhymer, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, 1956
Steeleye Span, Now We Are Six
Child 38: The Wee Wee Man
Child 39: Tam Lin
Tamlyn [also Tamlin, Tam Lyn etc.] is on the Mike Waterson LP and CD and also on the Watersons' Pence and Spicy Ale CD. Tamlyn is also on the CD Classic A. L. Lloyd.
There is a whole Tam Lin website devoted just to this one song.
Frankie Armstrong, Ballads, Fellside, FECD 110, 1997
Child 40: The Queen of Elfan's Nourice
Child 41: Hind Etin
Child 42: Clerk Colvill
Frankie Armstrong, Clerk Colven, Till the Grass O'ergrew the Corn, 1996
Child 43: Broomfield Hill
Ewan MacColl & A.L. Lloyd, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, 1956
Martin Carthy, Broomfield Hill, Martin Carthy, Landfall
Frankie Armstrong, Till the Grass O'ergrew the Corn, 1996
Child 44: The Twa Magicians
Martin Carthy, The Two Magicians, Martin Carthy
A. L. Lloyd, Classic A. L. Lloyd. Here's his note about the song.
There may be a distant relationship between The Twa Magicians and Jack Rowland,
which is on Martin Carthy's Out of the Cut.
See the page for that song for Malcolm Douglas's note.
Frankie Armstrong, Hares on the Mountain, Till the Grass O'ergrew the Corn, 1996
Shirley Collins
Steeleye Span
Patterson Jordan Dipper
Child 45: King John and the Bishop
Child 46: Captain Wedderburn's Courtship
Ewan MacColl & A.L. Lloyd, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, 1956
Child 47: Proud Lady Margaret
Child 48: Young Andrew
Death of Young Andrew is on Martin Carthy's Because It's There.
Child 49: The Twa Brothers
Child 50: The Bonny Hind
The Bonny Hind is on Martin Carthy's Signs of Life.
Child 51: Lizie Wan
Martin Carthy & Dave Swarbrick, Lucy Wan, Byker Hill, Skin and Bone, The Carthy Chronicles
Frankie Armstrong, Fair Lizzie, Till the Grass O'ergrew the Corn, 1996
Child 52: The King's Dochter Lady Jean
Child 53: Young Beichan
Ewan MacColl & A.L. Lloyd, Lord Bateman, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, 1956
Lord Bateman is on Wood Wilson Carthy.
Arthur Knevett, Ballads, Fellside FECD 110, 1997
Child 54: The Cherry-Tree Carol
Ewan MacColl & A.L. Lloyd, The Cherry Tree, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, 1956
Pentangle, Solomon's Seal, 1972
John Kirkpatrick et al., Wassail! A Traditional Celebration of an English Midwinter, 1998
Waterson:Carthy, Cherry Tree Carol, Holy Heathens and the Old Green Man, 2006
Child 55: The Carnal and the Crane
Ewan MacColl & A.L. Lloyd, Herod and the Cock, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, 1956
The Watersons, King Pharim,
For Pence and Spicy Ale LP and CD.
John Kirkpatrick et al., King Herod and the Cock, Wassail! A Traditional Celebration of an English Midwinter, 1998
Child 56: Dives and Lazarus
Ewan MacColl & A.L. Lloyd, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, 1956
Child 57: Brown Robyn's Confession
Child 58: Sir Patrick Spens
Ewan MacColl & A.L. Lloyd, Sir Patrick Spens, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, 1956
Steeleye Span, Full House, 1971 (inter alia)
Martin Carthy, Sir Patrick Spens, Signs of Life, The Carthy Chronicles, 2001
June Tabor, An Echo of Hooves, 2003
Child 59: Sir Aldingar
Child 60: King Estmere
Child 61: Sir Cawline
Child 62: Fair Annie
Child 63: Child Waters
Frankie Armstrong, Till the Grass O'ergrew the Corn, 1996
Child 64: Fair Janet
Child 65: Lady Maisry
There is a distant relationship between this and Mother, Go Make My Bed,
which is on Eliza Carthy and The Kings of Calicutt.
For further information, see the notes on the song's page.
Chris Foster, Layers
Child 66: Lord Ingram and Chiel Wyet
Child 67: Glasgerion
Martin Carthy, Jack Orion, Martin Carthy & Dave Swarbrick's But Two Came By, The Bonny Black Hare,The Carthy Chronicles, 2001
A.L.Lloyd,
Classic A. L. Lloyd
Pentangle, Jack Orion, Cruel Sister, 1970
Child 68: Young Hunting
Tony Rose, Young Hunting, Trailer LER 2013 (LP, UK, 1970)
Frankie Armstrong, The Proud Girl, Till the Grass O'ergrew the Corn, 1996
Martin Simpson, Love Henry, Kind Letters, 2005
Child 69: Clerk Saunders
Roy Bailey, Roy Bailey, 1971
June Tabor, Ashes and Diamonds, 1977
Tony Rose, Poor Fellows, 1982
Eliza Carthy, Clark Saunders, Heat Light and Sound, 1996
Martin Simpson, Kind Letters, 2005
Child 70: Willie and Lady Maisry
Child 71: The Bent Sae Brown
Child 72: The Clerk's Twa Sons o Owensford
Child 73: Lord Thomas and Annet
Ewan MacColl & A.L. Lloyd, Lord Thomas and Fair Eleanor, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, 1956
Martin Carthy & Dave Swarbrick, Lord Thomas and Fair Eleanor, Straws in the Wind, 2006
Child 74: Fair Margaret and Sweet William
Ewan MacColl & A.L. Lloyd, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, 1956
Shirley Collins, Lady Margaret and Sweet William, The Power of the True Love Knot, 1976, A Favourite Garland, 1974
June Tabor, An Echo of Hooves, 2003
Child 75: Lord Lovel
Dave Burland, A Dalesman's Litany, Trailer LER 2029, 1971
There is a distant relationship between this and Mother, Go Make My Bed,
which is on Eliza Carthy and The Kings of Calicutt.
For further information, see the notes on the song's page.
Child 76: The Lass of Roch Royal
Child 77: Sweet William's Ghost
Child 78: The Unquiet Grave
Ewan MacColl & A.L. Lloyd, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, 1956
Eliza Carthy & Nancy Kerr, The Unquiet Grave, Eliza Carthy & Nancy Kerr
Child 79: The Wife of Usher's Well
Steeleye Span, All Around My Hat, 1975
Frankie Armstrong, The Lover's Ghost, Till the Grass O'ergrew the Corn, 1996
Martin Carthy, Signs of Life, 1998, and And We'll All Have Tea: English Folk Anthology: The Gold Collection, Retro R2CD 40-106, 2000.
Child 80: Old Robin of Portingale
Child 81: Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard
Martin Carthy & Dave Swarbrick, Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard, Prince Heathen
Child 82: The Bonny Birdy
Ray Fisher, The Bonny Birdy, The Bonny Birdy, the notes to which state that the "form of the ballad contained here is
initially the brainchild of Martin Carthy".
Child 83: Child Morice [or Maurice]
Bill Norrie is on Martin Carthy's Right of Passage, on Martin Carthy's The Collection, and also on Martin Carthy's Rigs of the Time.
Child 84: Bonny Barbara Allen
Ewan MacColl & A.L. Lloyd, Bawbee Allan, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, 1956
Joan Baez
Shirley Collins, Barbara Allen, Sweet England, 1959; The Power of the True Love Knot, 1967
Norma Waterson, Barbary Allen, Bright Shiny Morning
Martin Carthy, Barbary Allen, Signs of Life,
Martin Carthy, Barbara Allen, Song Links, Fellside, FECD176D (2 CD, UK, 2003)
Child 85: Lady Alice
Shirley Collins, George Collins, The Sweet Primeroses, 1967
Ewan MacColl & A.L. Lloyd, George Collins, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, 1956
Child 86: Young Benjie
Child 87: Prince Robert
Child 88: Young Johnstone
Child 89: Fause Foodrage
Child 90: Jellon Grame
Child 91: Fair Mary of Wallington
Child 92: Bonny Bee Hom
Child's notes to this song (Malcolm Douglas points out) include a quotation
from the Lowlands of Holland,
which is on Martin Carthy's Second Album.
A different version of Lowlands of Holland is on the second Waterson:Carthy CD Common Tongue.
Child 93: Lamkin
Long Lankin is included in R. Vaughan Williams & A. L. Lloyd, The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs,
1959: 60-61, as collected on paper
by Cecil Sharp from Sister Emma, in Clewer, Berks, in 1909.
Bob Copper in Hampshire
in the 1950s tape-recorded George Fosbury's version, as False Lanky.
Steeleye Span, Long Lankin, Commoners Crown, 1975
Long Lankin is on Martin Carthy & Dave Swarbrick's But Two Came By, 1968
Child 94: Young Waters
Child 95: The Maid Freed From the Gallows
Ewan MacColl & A.L. Lloyd, The Prickly Bush, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, 1956
The Watersons, The Prickle-Holly Bush, Green Fields.
The Watersons
(including Rachel Waterson), The Prickle-Holly Bush, The Carthy Chronicles, 2001
Child 96: The Gay Goshawk
Child 97: Brown Robin
Child 98: Brown Adam
Martin Carthy, Brown Adam, Landfall
Child 99: Johnie Scott
Child 100: Willie o Winesberry
Dick Gaughan, Willie o' Winsbury, Gaughan, Topic 12TS384, 1978
Pentangle, Willy o'Winsbury, Solomon's Seal, 1972
Steve Turner, Lord Thomas of Winesbury, Eclogue, Fellside FE042, 1984
Child 101: Willie o Couglas Dale
Child 102: Willie and Earl Richard's Daughter
Child 103: Rose the Red and White Lily
Child 104: Prince Heathen
Martin Carthy & Dave Swarbrick, Prince Heathen, Prince Heathen
Martin Carthy, Signs of Life
Martin Carthy, The Carthy Chronicles
Child 105: The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington
Child 106: Famous Flower of Serving Men
Martin Carthy, The Famous Flower of Serving Men, Shearwater,
The Carthy Chronicles (2001), Troubadours Of British Folk, Folk Heartbeat, Emporio, EMPRCD 595.
Martin Carthy, Famous Flower of Serving Men, Kershaw Sessions.
Child 107: Will Steward and John
Child 108: Christopher White
Child 109: Tom Potts
Child 110: The Knight and the Shepherd's Daughter
Ewan MacColl & A.L. Lloyd, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, 1956
Child 111: Crow and Pie
Child 112: Blow Away the Morning Dew
Child 113: The Great Silkie of Sule Skerry
Maddy Prior, Ravenchild, Women in Folk, Collections: A Very Best of 1995 to 2005
Ray Fisher, The Bonny Birdy
Barbara Dickson, For the Record
Child 114: Johnie Cock
Ewan MacColl & A.L. Lloyd, Johnnie O'Breadisley, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, 1956
Child 115: Robyn and Gandeleyn
Child 116: Adam Bell, Clim of the Clough and William of Cloudesly
Child 117: The Gest of Robyn Hode
Child 118: Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne
Child 119: Robin Hood and the Monk
Child 120: Robin Hood's Death
Child 121: Robin Hood and the Potter
Child 122: Robin Hood and the Butcher
Child 123: Robin Hood and the Curtal Friar
Child 124: The Jolly Pindar of Wakefield
Child 125: Robin Hood and Little John
Child 126: Robin Hood and the Tanner
Ewan MacColl & A.L. Lloyd, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, 1956
Child 127: Robin Hood and the Tinker
Child 128: Robin Hood and the Newly Revived
Child 129: Robin Hood and the Prince of Aragon
Child 130: Robin Hood and the Scotchman
Child 131: Robin Hood and the Ranger
Child 132: The Bold Pedlar and Robin Hood
Ewan MacColl & A.L. Lloyd, Robin Hood and the Bold Pedlar, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, 1956
Steeleye Span, Gamble Gold, All Around My Hat, 1975
Child 133: Robin Hood and the Beggar, I
Child 134: Robin Hood and the Beggar, II
Child 135: Robin Hood and the Shepherd
Child 136: Robin Hood's Delight
Child 137: Robin Hood and the Pedlars
Child 138: Robin Hood and Allen a Dale
Child 139: Robin Hood's Progress to Nottingham
Child 140: Robin Hood Rescuing Three Squires
Child 141: Robin Hood Rescuing Will Stutly
Child 142: Little John a Begging
Child 143: Robin Hood and the Bishop
Child 144: Robin Hood and the Bishop of Hereford
Tony Rose, Young Hunting, Trailer LER 2013 (LP, UK, 1970)
Child 145: Robin Hood and Queen Katherine
Child 146: Robin Hood's Chase
Child 147: Robin Hood's Golden Prize
Child 148: The Noble Fisherman or Robin Hood's Preferment
Child 149: Robin Hood's Birth, Breeding, Valor and Marriage
Child 150: Robin Hood and Maid Marian
Child 151: The King's Disguise, and Friendship with Robin Hood
Child 152: Robin Hood and the Golden Arrow
Child 153: Robin Hood and the Valiant Knight
Child 154: A True Tale of Robin Hood
Child 155: Sir Hugh, or the Jew's Daughter
Ewan MacColl & A.L. Lloyd, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, 1956
Child 156: Queen Eleanor's Confession
Child 157: Gude Wallace
Child 158: High Spencer's Feats in France
Child 159: Durham Field
Child 160: The Knight of Liddesdale
Child 161: The Battle of Otterburn
Child 162: The Hunting of the Cheviot
Child 163: The Battle of Harlaw
Ewan MacColl & A.L. Lloyd, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, 1956
Child 164: King Henry Fifth's Conquest of France
Child 165: Sir John Butler
Child 166: The Rose of England
Child 167: Andrew Bartin
Child 168: Flodden Field
Child 169: Johnie Armstrong
Child 170: The Death of Queen Jane
Child 171: Thomas Cromwell
Child 172: Musselburgh Field
Child 173: Mary Hamilton
Child 174: Earl Bothwell
Child 175: The Rising in the North
Child 176: Northumberland Betrayed by Douglas
Child 177: The Earl of Westmoreland
Child 178: Captain Car, or, Edom o Gordon
Child 179: Rookhope Ryde
Child 180: King James and Brown
Child 181: The Bonnie Earl o' Moray
Child 182: The Laird of Logie
cf. Geordie?
Child 183: Willie Macintosh
The Burning of Auchendoon
Ewan MacColl & A.L. Lloyd, The Burning o' Auchendoun, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, 1956
Hedgehog Pie, The Green Lady, 1975
Maddy Prior & June Tabor, Burning of Auchidoon, Silly Sisters, Chrysalis CHR 1101, LP, UK, 1976
Child 184: The Lads of Wamphray
Child 185: Dick o the Cow
Child 186: Kinmont Willie
Child 187: Jock o the Side
Child 188: Archie o Cawfield
Child 189: Hobie Noble
Child 190: Jamie Telfer of the Fair Dodhead
Child 191: Hughie Graham
Ewan MacColl & A.L. Lloyd, Hughie the Graeme, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, 1956
Child 192: The Lochmaben Harper
Martin Carthy & Dave Swarbrick, Lochmaben Harper, Life and Limb.
Child 193: The Death of Parcy Reed
Child 194: The Laird of Wariston
Child 195: Lord Maxwell's Last Goodnight
Child 196: The Fire of Frendruahgt
Child 197: James Grant
Child 198: Bonny John Seton
Child 199: Bonnie House o' Airlie
Ewan MacColl & A.L. Lloyd, The Bonnie Hoose o' Airlie, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, 1956
Child 200: The Gypsy Laddie
Mike Waterson, Seven Yellow Gypsies, Mike Waterson, For Pence and Spicy Ale
Martin Carthy & Dave Swarbrick, Seven Yellow Gypsies, Prince Heathen, Martin Carthy: A Collection, 1999
The Waterson Carthy Band, Raggle Taggle Gipsies, Broken Ground
Child 201: Bessy Bell and Mary Gray
Ewan MacColl & A.L. Lloyd, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, 1956
Martin Carthy, Betsy Bell and Mary Gray, Shearwater
Lal and Norma Waterson, Betsy Belle, A True Hearted Girl
Child 202: The Battle of Philiphaugh
Child 203: The Baron of Brackley
Ray Fisher
A L Lloyd
Dave Swarbrick
Danny Spooner
Child 204: Jamie Douglas
Child 205: Loudon Hill, or Dromclog
Child 206: Bothwell Bridge
Child 207: Lord Delamere
Child 208: Lord Dernwentwater
Child 209: Geordie
Ewan MacColl & A.L. Lloyd, Geordie, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, 1956
Shirley Collins, The Foggy Dew, Collector EP, 1964
Shirley Collins, Within Sound, 4CD anthology, 2002 [1964]
Shirley Collins, Love Death & the Lady, 1970
Julie Felix, Changes, 1966
Martin Carthy, Geordie, Crown of Horn, Rigs of the Time, 1993
Martin Carthy, The Carthy Chronicles (live on the John Peel Show), 2001
Martin Carthy, Georgie, Signs of Life,
1998
Child 210: Bonnie James Campbell
Steve Turner, Flash Company (compilation), Fellside
Steve Turner, The Whirligig of Time, Tradition Bearers, 2008
Child 211: Bewick and Graham
Child 212: The Duke of Athole's Nurse
June Tabor, An Echo of Hooves, 2003
Child 213: Sir James the Rose
Child 214: The Braes o Yarrow
Child 215: Rare Willie Drowned in Yarrow, or, The Water o Gamrie
Child 216: The Mother's Malison, or, Clyde's Water
Martin Carthy & Dave Swarbrick, Clyde's Water, Skin and Bone
Nic Jones, Drowned Lovers, Penguin Eggs, Topic TSCD411
Kate Rusby, Drowned Lovers, Hourglass, Pure Records PRCD 02, 1997
Child 217: The Broom of Cowdenknows
Ewan MacColl & A.L. Lloyd, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, 1956
The Watersons, The Broom of Cowdenknowes, New Voices, Early Days
The Watersons, Folk Songs: An Anthology: Topic Sampler 2, TPS 145, 1966.
Child 218: The False Lover Won Back
Child 219: The Gardener
Child 220: The Bonny Lass Of Anglesey
Martin Carthy, Bonny Lass of Anglesey, Crown of Horn.
Child 221: Katherine Jafray
Child 222: Bonny Baby Livingston
Child 223: Epie Morrie
Ewan MacColl & A.L. Lloyd, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, 1956
Child 224: The Lady of Arngosk
Child 225: Rob Roy
Ewan MacColl & A.L. Lloyd, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, 1956
Child 226: Lizie Lindsay
Child 227: Bonny Lizie Baillie
Child 228: Glasgow Peggie
Ewan MacColl & A.L. Lloyd, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, 1956
Child 229: Earl Crawford
Child 230: The Slaughter of the Laird of Mellerstain
Child 231: The Earl of Errol
Child 232: Richie Story
Ewan MacColl & A.L. Lloyd, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, 1956
Child 233: Andrew Lammie
The Boys of the Lough, The Boys of the Lough, Trailer LER2086, 1973
Martin Simpson, Prodigal Son,
Gordeanna McCulloch,
Mill o Tifty's Annie, Ballads, Fellside FECD 110, 1997
Child 234: Charlie MacPherson
Child 235: The Earl of Aboyne
Child 236: The Laird o' Drum
Ewan MacColl & A.L. Lloyd, The Devil and the Ploughman, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, 1956
Child 237: The Duke of Gordon's Daughter
Child 238: Glenlogie or Jean o Bethalnie
Dick Gaughan, Bonnie Jeannie o' Bethelnie, Gaughan, Topic 12TS384, 1978
Dick Gaughan, Glenlogie, Live in Edinburgh, 1985
Child 239: Lord Saltoun and Auchanachie
Child 240: The Rantin Laddie
Ewan MacColl & A.L. Lloyd, The Bonnie Hoose o' Airlie, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, 1956
Child 241: The Baron o Leys
Child 242: The Coble o Cargin
Child 243: James Harris (The Daemon Lover)
Ewan MacColl & A.L. Lloyd, The Daemon Lover, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, 1956
Steeleye Span, Demon Lover, Commoners Crown, 1975
Martin Simpson, House Carpenter, Kind Letters, Topic TSCD553, 2005
Cara, The House Carpenter, In Between Times, 2007; In Full Swing - Live, DVD, 2008
Child 244: James Hatley
Child 245: Young Allan
Child 246: Redesdale and Wise William
Child 247: Lady Elspat
Child 248: The Grey Cock, or, Saw You My Father
Waterson:Carthy, The Grey Cock, Waterson:Carthy
Tony Rose, The Yarmouth Tragedy, Poor Fellows, 1982
Frankie Armstrong, The Lover's Ghost, Till the Grass O'ergrew the Corn, 1996
Child 250: Henry Martyn
Waterson:Carthy, The Lofty Tall Ship, A Dark Light
A.L. Lloyd & Ewan MacColl, Henry Martin, English and Scottish Folk Ballads (1964).
Child 251: Lang Johnny More
Long John, Old John and Jackie North is on Martin Carthy's Because It's There.
Martin Carthy's own note says that his song
"is a reworking of Long Johnny Mor", which is in Child.
Child 252: The Kitchie-Boy
Child 253: Thomas o Yonderdale
Chris Foster, Lady Maisry, Layers
Child 254: Lord William, or Lord Lundy
Child 255: Willie's Fatal Visit
Child 256: Alison and Willie
Child 257: Burd Isabel and Earl Patrick
Child 258: Broughty Wa's
Child 259: Lord Thomas Stuart
Child 260: Lord Thomas and Lady Margaret
Child 261: Lady Isabel
Child 262: Lord Livingston
Child 263: The New-Slain Knight
Child 264: The White Fisher
Child 265: The Knight's Ghost
Child 266: John Thomson and the Turk
Child 267: The Heir of Linne
Ewan MacColl & A.L. Lloyd, The Heir O'Lynne, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, 1956
Child 268: The Twa Knights
Child 269: Lady Diamond
Frankie Armstrong, Till the Grass O'ergrew the Corn, 1996
Child 270: The Earl of Mar's Daughter
Child 271: The Lord of Lorn and the False Steward
Child 272: The Suffolk Miracle
Child 273: King Edward the Fourth and a Tanner of Tamworth
Child 274: Our Goodman
Ewan MacColl & A.L. Lloyd, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, 1956
Child 275: Get Up and Bar the Door
Ewan MacColl & A.L. Lloyd, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, 1956
Tony Rose, John Blunt, Under the Greenwood Tree, 1971
Martin Carthy, John Blunt, Shearwater, 1972
Silly Sisters (Maddy Prior & June Tabor) The Barring of the Door, No More to the Dance, 1988
Frankie Armstrong, John Blunt, Till the Grass O'ergrew the Corn, 1996
Child 276: The Friar in the Well
Martin Carthy, Out of the Cut
Child 277: The Wife Wrapt in Wether's Skin
Ewan MacColl & A.L. Lloyd, The Cooper o' Fife, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, 1956
Child 278: The Farmer's Curst Wife
Ewan MacColl & A.L. Lloyd, The Devil and the Ploughman, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, 1956
Child 279: The Jolly Beggar
Ewan MacColl & A.L. Lloyd, The Jolly Beggar, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, 1956
Also known, says Bob Hudson, as The Gaberlunyie-Man -
a relation to The Gaberlunzie Man given in the Appendix to Child #279
Lal and Norma Waterson, Beggar Man, A True Hearted Girl, For Pence and Spicy Ale
Danny Spooner, The Gaberlunyie Man
Child 280: The Beggar-Laddie
Ewan MacColl & A.L. Lloyd, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, 1956
Child 281: The Keach i the Creel
Ewan MacColl & A.L. Lloyd, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, 1956
The Ride in the Creel is on Martin Carthy & Dave Swarbrick's Skin and Bone. The Keek (or Ride) in the Creel is on Eliza Carthy & Nancy Kerr's Shape of Scrape.
Child 282: Jock the Leg and the Merry Merchant
Ewan MacColl & A.L. Lloyd, Jock the Leg, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, 1956
Child 283: The Crafty Farmer
Child 284: John Dory
Child 285: The George Aloe and the Sweepstake
Child 286: The Sweet Trinity (The Golden Vanity [or, The Lowlands Low])
Ewan MacColl & A.L. Lloyd, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, 1956
Tony Rose, Young Hunting, Trailer LER 2013 (LP, UK, 1970)
Brass Monkey, The Old Virginia Lowlands, Sound and Rumour
Child 287: Captain Ward and the Rainbow
Ewan MacColl & A.L. Lloyd, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, 1956
Child 288: The Young Earl of Essex's Victory Over the Emperor of Germany
Child 289: Mermaid
Child 290: The Wylie Wife of the Hie Toun Hie
Child 291: Child Owlet
Child 292: The West-Country Damosel's Complaint
Child 293: John of Hazelgreen
Child 294: Dugal Quin
Child 295: The Brown Girl
Ewan MacColl & A.L. Lloyd, The Dover Sailor, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, 1956
Martin Carthy & Dave Swarbrick, The Brown Girl, Skin and Bone, 1992
Child 296: Walter Lesly
Child 297: Earl Rothes
Child 298: Young Peggy
Child 299: Trooper and Maid
Ewan MacColl & A.L. Lloyd, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, 1956
Child 300: Blancheflour and Jellyflorice
Child 301: The Queen of Scotland
Child 302: Young Bearwell
Child 303: The Holy Nunnery
Child 304: Young Ronald
Child 305: The Outlaw Murray