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The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs

The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs (Penguin 1861)

The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs
Selected and edited by Ralph Vaughan Williams and A.L. Lloyd
Penguin Books, 1959

The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs (Penguin 1980)
Classic English Folk Songs (EFDSS 2003)

Classic English Folk Songs
Selected and edited by Ralph Vaughan Williams and A.L. Lloyd
Revised by Malcolm Douglas
English Folk Dance & Song Society, London, 2003
ISBN 0 85418 188 1

Supplementary Material;
Musical Tradition review by Rod Stradling

The Songs

All Things Are Quite Silent
Shirley Collins: The Sweet Primeroses (1967);
Steeleye Span: Hark! The Village Wait (1970);
Linda Adams on A Selection from The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs (1986);
Shirley & Dolly Collins: Harking Back (1998);
Shirley Collins: Within Sound (2002);
Shirley & Dolly Collins on Folk Festival Sidmouth (2004);
Shirley & Dolly Collins: Snapshots (2006)
As Sylvie Was Walking
The Banks of Green Willow
Nic Jones: Nic Jones (1971)
Martin Carthy: Shearwater (1972);
Tony Rose: On Banks of Green Willow (1976);
Martin Carthy on A Selection from The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs (1986);
Paul Adams on Flash Company (1986);
Tony Rose: Bare Bones (1999);
Coope Boyes & Simpson: Triple Echo: Songs collected by Ralph Vaughan Williams, George Butterworth and Percy Grainger (2005)
The Banks of Newfoundland
John Bowden on A Selection from The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs (1986)
The Banks of Sweet Primroses
Louis Killen on The Bird in the Bush: Traditional Songs of Love and Lust (1966);
Shirley Collins: The Sweet Primeroses (1967);
Martin Carthy, Dave Swarbrick: But Two Came By (1968);
Fairport Convention: Angel Delight (1971);
Fairport Convention: Live at the L.A. Troubadour (1977);
The Copper Family on Hidden English: A Celebration of English Traditional Music (1996);
Brian Peters: Sharper Than the Thorn (1997);
Phil Tanner on World Library of Folk and Primitive Music: England (1998);
Tony Rose: Bare Bones (1999);
Blue Murder: No One Stands Alone (2002);
June Tabor: At the Wood's Heart (2005)
Basket of Eggs (Eggs in Her Basket)
Tony Rose: Under the Greenwood Tree (1971);
Roy Harris on By Sandbank Fields (1977);
Linda Adams on A Selection from The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs (1986);
Martin Carthy: Right of Passage (1988)
Benjamin Bowmaneer
Eliza Carthy: Rice (1998)
The Blacksmith
Shirley Collins: Heroes in Love (1963);
Shirley Collins: Anthems in Eden (1969);
Shirley Collins: For As Many As Will (CD bonus track, rec. 1974);
Steeleye Span: Hark! The Village Wait (1970);
Steeleye Span: Please to See the King (1971);
Maddy Prior on Voices - English Traditional Songs (1992);
Steeleye Span: In Concert (1994);
Steeleye Span: The Journey (1999);
Boreen: Enchanted Ways (1997);
Maddy Prior: Ballads and Candles (2000)
The Bold Benjamin
Cyril Tawney on Farewell Nancy: Sea Songs and Shanties (1964);
The Ian Campbell Folk Group: New Impressions (1967);
Martin Carthy, Dave Swarbrick: Straws in the Wind (2006)
The Bonny Grey
see The Cock-Fight
The Bramble Briar (Bruton Town; The Murdered Servantman)
Martin Carthy: Second Album (1966);
Tim Hart & Maddy Prior: Folk Songs of Old England (1968);
Tony Rose: On Banks of Green Willow (1976);
Sandy Denny: Who Knows Where the Time Goes? (1986);
Louis Killen on English and Scottish Folk Ballads (1996);
Martin Simpson: The Bramble Briar (2001);
Tony Rose: Exe (2008)
The Broomfield Hill (A Wager, a Wager)
A.L. Lloyd: England & Her Folk Songs (1960);
Martin Carthy: Martin Carthy (1965);
Tim Hart & Maddy Prior: Folk Songs of Old England (1968);
Martin Carthy: Landfall (1971);
Frankie Armstrong: Till the Grass O'ergrew the Corn (1996);
Martin Carthy, Dave Swarbrick: Both Ears and the Tail (2000);
June Tabor: At the Wood's Heart (2005)
Bruton Town
see The Bramble Briar
The Cock-Fight (The Bonny Grey)
A.L. Lloyd: English Street Songs (195x);
A.L. Lloyd, Ewan MacColl: Champions and Sporting Blades (195x);
A.L. Lloyd, Ewan MacColl: Bold Sportsmen All (1958);
The Watersons on The Folksound of Britain (1965);
The Watersons: Mighty River of Song (2004)
The Cruel Mother
Shirley Collins: False True Lovers (1960);
A.L. Lloyd: English and Scottish Folk Ballads (1964);
Shirley Collins: The Sweet Primeroses (1967);
Martin Carthy: Landfall (1971);
Steeleye Span: Tempted and Tried (1989);
Maddy Prior: Flesh & Blood (1997)
The Daughter of Peggy, O
Death and the Lady
Shirley & Dolly Collins: Love, Death & the Lady (1970)
Waterson:Carthy: A Dark Light (2002)
Bellowhead: Burlesque (2006)
The Death of Queen Jane
Martin Carthy, Dave Swarbrick: Straws in the Wind (2006)
The Deserter from Kent
The Devil and the Farmer
see The Devil and the Ploughman
The Devil and the Ploughman (The Devil and the Farmer)
A.L. Lloyd: A Selection from The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs (1960);
Waterson:Carthy: A Dark Light (2002)
Do Me Ama
see Jack the Jolly Tar
Droylsden Wakes
Ewan MacColl: Steam Whistle Ballads (1964);
Ewan MacColl on Folk Songs: A Collection of Ballads & Broadsides (Topic Sampler No. 6, 1970?)
Eggs in her Basket
see Basket of Eggs
A Fair Maid Walking
see The Young and Single Sailor
The False Bride
A.L. Lloyd: A Selection from The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs (1960);
Sandy Denny on Alex Campbell and His Friends (1967);
John Bowden on A Selection from The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs (1986)
Fare Thee Well, My Dearest Dear
Shirley Collins: Amaranth (1976);
Shirley Collins: Harking Back (1998);
Shirley Collins: Snapshots (2006)
The Gallant Frigate Amphitrite
see Rounding the Horn
Gamble Gold
see Robin Hood and the Pedlar
Gaol Song (Treadmill Song)
A.L. Lloyd: A Selection from The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs (1960);
Steeleye Span: Storm Force Ten (1977);
Roy Harris on A Selection from The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs (1986);
Martin Carthy, Dave Swarbrick: Straws in the Wind (2006)
The Gentleman Soldier
A.L. Lloyd: A Selection from The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs (1960);
Martin Carthy, Dave Swarbrick: Byker Hill (1967);
Steeleye Span: Tonight's the Night (1991);
Steeleye Span: 25 Live (1995)
Geordie
A.L. Lloyd: England & Her Folk Songs (1960);
Julie Felix: Changes (1966);
Shirley & Dolly Collins: Love, Death & the Lady (1970)
Martin Carthy: Crown of Horn (1976);
Silly Sisters: Silly Sisters (1976);
Sandy Denny: The Attic Tracks Vol. 3 (1989);
Martin Carthy: The Carthy Chronicles (2001)
George Collins
A.L. Lloyd: A Selection from The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs (1960);
Shirley Collins: The Sweet Primeroses (1967)
Shirley Collins: Harking Back (1998);
Tony Rose: Bare Bones (1999)
The Golden Vanity (The Old Virginia Lowlands)
Tony Rose on Young Hunting (1970);
Jez Lowe on A Selection from The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs (CD reissue, 1994);
Johnny Doughty on Hidden English: A Celebration of English Traditional Music (1996);
Steeleye Span on The Best of British Folk Rock (1996);
Brass Monkey on Sound and Rumour (1998);
Steeleye Span on A Stroll Through the Park (1999);
Tony Rose: Exe (2008)
The Green Bed
Martin Carthy on A Selection from The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs (CD reissue, 1994)
The Greenland Whale Fishery
A.L. Lloyd, Ewan MacColl: The Singing Sailor (1956);
A.L. Lloyd, Ewan MacColl: Thar She Blows (1957);
The Watersons on New Voices (1965);
The Watersons: Travelling for a Living (1965);
A.L. Lloyd: Leviathan! Ballads and Songs of the Whaling Trade (1967);
The Watersons: The Early Days (1994);
The Watersons: Mighty River of Song (2004)
The Grey Cock (The Lover's Ghost)
A.L. Lloyd: A Selection from The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs (1960);
Jez Lowe on A Selection from The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs (1986);
Waterson:Carthy: Waterson:Carthy (1994)
I Wish, I Wish
Jack the Jolly Tar (Do Me Ama)
A.L. Lloyd: The Blackball Line (1957);
A.L. Lloyd: Blow Boys Blow (1960);
Martin Carthy, Dave Swarbrick: Byker Hill (1967);
Eliza Carthy: Heat Light & Sound (1996);
Martin Carthy: Martin Carthy at Ruskin Mill (2005);
Martin Carthy, Dave Swarbrick: Straws in the Wind (2006)
John Barleycorn
A.L. Lloyd: English Drinking Songs (1956);
The Watersons: Frost and Fire (1965);
Martin Carthy, Dave Swarbrick: Byker Hill (1967);
Traffic: John Barleycorn Must Die (1970);
Steeleye Span: Below the Salt (1972);
Martin Carthy: Sweet Wivelsfield (1974);
Fairport Convention: Forever Young (Cropredy 1982);
Fairport Convention: The Boot (Cropredy 1983);
A.L. Lloyd: Classic A.L. Lloyd (1994);
Fairport Convention: The Cropredy Box (Cropredy 1997);
Martin Carthy: The Carthy Chronicles (2001);
Steeleye Span: The Journey (2000);
Steeleye Span: Present: The Very Best of Steeleye Span (2002);
Maddy Prior: Lionhearts (2003)
A Jug of This
see Ye Mar'ners All
Lisbon
June Tabor: Ashes and Diamonds (1977);
Long A-Growing
see The Trees They Grow So High
Long Lankin
Martin Carthy, Dave Swarbrick: But Two Came By (1968);
Steeleye Span: Commoner's Crown (1975);
Steeleye Span: Present: The Very Best of Steeleye Span (2002);
Steeleye Span: The 35th Anniversary World Tour (2004)
Lord Thomas and Fair Eleanor
A.L. Lloyd on The English and Scottish Popular Ballads (The Child Ballads) Vol IV (1956);
Martin Carthy, Dave Swarbrick: Straws in the Wind (2006)
Lovely Joan
A.L. Lloyd: A Selection from The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs (1960);
Martin Carthy: Martin Carthy (1965);
Martin Carthy: Because It's There (1979);
Martin Carthy: The Carthy Chronicles (2001);
Coope Boyes & Simpson: Triple Echo: Songs collected by Ralph Vaughan Williams, George Butterworth and Percy Grainger (2005)
The Lover's Ghost
see The Grey Cock
Lucy Wan
Martin Carthy, Dave Swarbrick: Byker Hill (1967);
Martin Carthy, Dave Swarbrick: Skin and Bone (1992);
Martin Carthy, Dave Swarbrick: 100 Not Out (1992)
The Manchester “Angel”
The Man of Burningham Town
Martin Carthy, Dave Swarbrick: Byker Hill (1967)
The Mermaid
Martin Carthy, Dave Swarbrick: Straws in the Wind (2006)
Mother, Mother, Make My Bed
Eliza Carthy: Eliza Carthy and the Kings of Calicutt (1997)
The New York Trader
O Shepherd, O Shepherd
Martin Carthy: Sweet Wivelsfield (1974)
The Old Man from Lee
The Old Virginia Lowlands
see The Golden Vanity
On Monday Morning
One Night As I Lay on My Bed
A.L. Lloyd: A Selection from The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs (1960);
Steeleye Span: Hark! The Village Wait (1970);
Shirley Collins: Adieu to Old England (1974);
Roy Harris on A Selection from The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs (1986);
Patterson Jordan Dipper: Flat Earth (2002)
The Outlandish Knight
A.L. Lloyd: England & Her Folk Songs (1960);
Shirley & Dolly Collins: Love, Death & the Lady (1970)
Martin Carthy: Shearwater (1972);
Fred Jordan on Hidden English: A Celebration of English Traditional Music (1996);
Jumbo Brightwell on World Library of Folk and Primitive Music: England (1998);
Waterson:Carthy: A Dark Light (2002)
T'Owd Yowe Wi' One Horn
Dean Robinson on Unto Brigg Fair (1972)
Oxford City / Worcester City / Newport Street
Joseph Taylor: Unto Brigg Fair (1972)
Nic Jones: From the Devil to a Stranger (1978)
Eliza Carthy: Anglicana (2002)
Julie Murphy on Old Wine, New Skins (2007)
The Ploughman
Ratcliffe Highway
Roy Harris on A Selection from The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs (1986)
The Red Herring
Robin Hood and the Pedlar (Gamble Gold)
Steeleye Span: All Around My Hat (1975)
Rounding the Horn (The Gallant Frigate Amphitrite)
A.L. Lloyd: A Selection from The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs (1960);
Peter Bellamy: Both Sides Then (1979);
Isla St Clair: The Song and the Story (1981);
Martin Simpson: The Bramble Briar (2001);
Patterson Jordan Dipper: Flat Earth (2002)
The Royal Oak
Tony Rose on Young Hunting (1970);
Roy Harris on Round Cape Horn (rec. 1972, pub. 1998);
June Tabor: Always (rec. 1972, pub. 2005);
Martin Carthy, Dave Swarbrick: Straws in the Wind (2006)
The Sailor from Dover
A.L. Lloyd: A Selection from The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs (1960)
Shirley & Dolly Collins: Love, Death & the Lady (1970)
A Sailor in the North Country
A Sailor's Life
A.L. Lloyd: A Selection from The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs (1960);
Martin Carthy: Second Album (1966);
Fairport Convention: Unhalfbricking (1969);
The Albion Band on The Guv'nor Vol 1 (1994);
Vikki Clayton: It Suits Me Well (1994)
Salisbury Plain
A.L. Lloyd: A Selection from The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs (1960);
Martin Carthy: Prince Heathen (1969)
Shirley & Dolly Collins: Love, Death & the Lady (1970)
The Ship in Distress
Martin Carthy, Dave Swarbrick: But Two Came By (1968);
Martin Carthy, Dave Swarbrick on Swarb! (2003);
Martin Carthy, Dave Swarbrick: Straws in the Wind (2006)
Six Dukes Went A-Fishing
A.L. Lloyd: A Selection from The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs (1960)
Shirley & Dolly Collins: Love, Death & the Lady (1970)
The Streams of Lovely Nancy
Linda Adams on A Selection from The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs (CD reissue, 1994);
Brass Monkey: Flame of Fire (2004)
Treadmill Song
see Gaol Song
The Trees They Grow So High (Long A-Growing)
A.L. Lloyd: A Selection from The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs (1960);
Martin Carthy: Martin Carthy (1965);
Tony Rose: Under the Greenwood Tree (1971);
Steeleye Span: Now We Are Six (1974);
Eliza Carthy & Nancy Kerr: Shape of Scrape (1995)
The Twenty-Third of March
see The Whale-Catchers
The Unfortunate Lass
see Young Girl Cut Down in Her Prime
A Wager, a Wager
see The Broomfield Hill
The Whale-Catchers (The Twenty-Third of March)
A.L. Lloyd: Thar She Blows! (1957);
A.L. Lloyd: A Selection from The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs (1960);
A.L. Lloyd: Leviathan! Ballads and Songs of the Whaling Trade (1967);
Roy Harris: By Sandbank Fields (1977);
Martin Carthy on A Selection from The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs (1986);
Martin Carthy, Dave Swarbrick: Straws in the Wind (2006)
When I Was a Little Boy
Roy Harris: Champions of Folly (1980)
Martin Carthy, Dave Swarbrick: Straws in the Wind (2006)
When I Was Young
Jez Lowe on A Selection from The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs (1986);
Martin Carthy: The Kershaw Sessions (1994);
Brass Monkey: Sound and Rumour (1998)
Ye Mar'ners All (A Jug of This)
A.L. Lloyd: English Drinking Songs (1956);
A.L. Lloyd: A Selection from The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs (1960);
Martin Carthy: Martin Carthy (1965);
Waterson:Carthy: Waterson:Carthy (1994)
The Young and Single Sailor (A Fair Maid Walking)
Linda Adams on A Selection from The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs (1986);
Eliza Carthy & Nancy Kerr: Shape of Scrape (1995);
John Roberts & Tony Barrand: Heartoutbursts: English Folksongs collected by Percy Grainger (1995);
Roger McGuinn on Treasures from the Folk Den (2001);
The Trugs on Voices in Harmony (2001);
Steve Turner on The Whirligig of Time (2008)
Young Emma
see Young Edwin in the Lowlands Low
Young Edwin in the Lowlands Low (Young Emma)
Louis Killen: Ballads and Broadsides (1975);
Steeleye Span: Now We Are Six (1974);
Martin Carthy on Voices - English Traditional Songs (1992)
Young Girl Cut Down in Her Prime
Shirley & Dolly Collins: Love, Death & the Lady (1970);
Lal & Norma Waterson: A True Hearted Girl (1977)