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Francis James Child
The English and Scottish Popular Ballads (1882-1898)

Links

• The Carthy/Watersons Child page: a list of all the Child ballads they have recorded.
• A new edition of The English and Scottish Popular Ballads is now available from Loomis House Press (final Vol. 5 released in August 2011)
• Lesley Nelson-Burns: A complete list of Francis J. Child ballads
• Wikisource: Child's Ballads
• Sacred Texts: The English and Scottish Popular Ballads
• Cathy Lynn Preston, David Stampe: The Child Ballads
• Halewijn Vandijk's Child Ballad Database (CBDB): a list of all known recordings of Child ballads

Texts

There used to be texts for a few Child Ballads in this place but there is not much sense in doubling the work that has been done on the net in several places. I have replaced them with links to Wikisource in the head of the individual song pages, see e.g. Child 1, Riddles Wisely Expounded.