The Copper Family Song Index

See also the songs collected by Bob Copper in the 1950s and published inSongs and Southern Breezes: Country Folk and Country Ways, Heinemann, London, 1973.

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These are the songs in the Copper family tradition, some of which are known to have been sung by seven generations of the same family.

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Adieu Sweet Lovely Nancy Admiral Benbow As I Walked Out Babes in the Wood Banks of the Sweet Primroses The Battle of Alma Bold General Wolfe Bold Princess Royal The Bold Dragoon Bold Fisherman Brisk and Bonny Lad Brisk and Lively Lad Brisk Young Ploughboy By the Green Grove Charming Molly The Christmas Song Claudy Banks Come All Ye Bold Britons Come Write Me Down Corduroy Cupid's Garden Dame Durden Dick Turpin Dogs and Ferrets

The Dying Soldier The Echoing Horn The Farmer in Cheshire The Forsaken Mermaid The Fox Gentlemen of High Renown Hard Times of Old England Hark the Goddess Diana Heigh Ho Sing Ivy Honest Labourer Irish Girl The Lark in the Morning A Lawyer Bold Lord Thomas and Fair Eleanor Month of May My Father Had an Acre of Land My Love Has Gone No John No Now All You Lads Oh Good Ale Old Adam Old Threshing Song Rose of Allendale Pleasant Month of May Seamen Bold

The Seasons/Ploughshare Sheepshearing Song Shepherd of the Downs The Shepherd's Song Shepherds Arouse Softly the Night Spencer the Rover Sportsmen Arise Spotted Cow Sweep Chimney Sweep Sweet Lemeney Thousands or More Twanky Dillo The Twelve Days of Christmas Two Old Crows Two Young Brethren The Veteran Warlike Seamen/Irish Captain A Week before Easter When Jones's Ale was New When Spring Comes In The White Cockade Wind Across the Moor Wop she 'ad it-io

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These seventy-three songs are all that I know of that have been recorded or otherwise published by any member of the Copper family. Forty-seven of the songs, words and music, are in Bob Copper's book A Song for Every Season. Sixty-five are in The Copper Family Song Book: A Living Tradition. | Garry Gillard | 6 March 1999