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A Collection of Old Ballads

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24: 115:", and "Bonny Dundee". The preface to volume two notes that readers had responded to volume one by sending some rare songs to the editor. It has fewer genuine folksongs than the first volume, and instead has some obvious literary concoctions. It has "The Merchant's Son and Beggar Wench of Hull" (a prototype of " 167:"A Collection of Old Ballads" is the first printed collection to aim for songs that were genuinely old folksongs, but there are no tunes to the 159 texts. In a few cases the names of tunes are indicated. 218:
R. S. Thomson,‘The Development of the Broadside Ballad Trade and its Influence upon the Transmission of English Ballads’, (unpublished doctoral thesis, Cambridge University, 1974 pp.108-111
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is an anonymous book published 1723–1725 in three volumes in London by Roberts and Leach. It was the second major collection of British folksongs to be published, following
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ballads. The third volume is the poorest, with long historical songs about the kings of England, obviously not taken from the folk tradition. "
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4) is genuine, and there is even a whaling song "The Greenland Voyage". There are a few Scottish items: "
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was inspired to publish his "Tea-Table Miscellany" (1724) in Edinburgh.
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was once credited as the editor, but this has since been challenged.
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http://www.lib.virginia.edu/small/exhibits/music/ballads.html
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Wit and Mirth, or Pills to Purge Melancholy
Ambrose Philips
Chevy Chase
Queen Eleanor's Confession
The Suffolk Miracle
New York Girls
Robin Hood
The Baffled Knight
Child Ballad
The Broom of Cowdenknowes
Bessy Bell and Mary Gray
The Gaberlunzie Man
Maddy Prior
Allan Ramsay
Frank Kidson
http://partners.nytimes.com/books/first/f/filene-folk.html
http://www.stefan-szczelkun.org.uk/taste/Chapter4-Sharp.html
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/small/exhibits/music/ballads.html
http://www.kinglaoghaire.com/site/lyrics/song_277.html
http://mysongbook.de/msb/songs/b/beggarwe.html
http://www.gaudela.net/prior/hang_up_sorrow.html
http://www.serendipitybooks.com/brooks.html
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