Roud Folk Song Index

~ Work series

Annotation

Information about individual works can be found in the VWML database at http://www.vwml.org/roudnumber/ID (where ID is the Roud number)

Annotation last modified on 2014-08-08 23:06 UTC.

Works

#	Work	Writers	Artists	ISWC	Type	Lyrics Languages	Attributes	Rating
1	The Raggle Taggle Gypsy (aka The Raggle Taggle Gypsies O / The Gypsy Laddie / Black Jack Davy / Seven Yellow Gypsies)	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (lyricist, composer)	Steeleye Span The Waterboys Fotheringay Planxty (show 98 more)		Song	English
2	The Unfortunate Lass (Bad Girl's Lament)	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (lyricist, composer, writer)	Norma Waterson Steeleye Span Martin Simpson Brendan Gleeson (show 8 more)		Song	English
3	Sprig o’ Thyme (aka The Bunch of Thyme / The Seeds of Love)	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (lyricist, composer)	The Pentangle Sandy Denny Isla Cameron June Tabor (show 21 more)		Song	English
4	Lord Thomas and Annet (aka Lord Thomas and Fair Ellender)	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (lyricist, composer)	Jean Ritchie Jerry Garcia & David Grisman Martin Simpson Mike Seeger		Song	English
5	The Three Ravens (Child 26, Roud 5)	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (lyricist, composer)	Steeleye Span Frances Faye Alfred Deller, Desmond Dupré Andreas Scholl, Andreas Martin (show 9 more)		Song	English Scots
6	Lamkin (traditional ballad)	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (lyricist, composer)	Shirley Collins Mrs. Nicola "Aunt Nicky" Pritchard (Turbyfill)		Song	English
7	Sovay (aka Sylvia / Cecilia / The Female Highwayman)	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (lyricist, composer)	The Pentangle James Yorkston & The Big Eyes Family Players Stray Hens Timothy Walsh Jelena Popržan		Song	English
8	The Two Sisters (aka The Wind and the Rain / The Bows of London / Cruel Sister)	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (lyricist, composer)	Clannad The Pentangle Tom Waits Crooked Still (show 37 more)		Song	English
9	The Cruel Mother (aka Greenwood Sidey / The Lady of York / Fine Flowers in the Valley)	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (lyricist, composer)	Shirley Collins Steeleye Span Judy Collins Simpson Cutting Kerr (show 22 more)		Song	English
10	Lord Randall (aka What Had You for Supper / Buried in Kilkenny / The Wild, Wild Berry)	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (lyricist, composer)	Martin Carthy The Dublin Ramblers Buffy Sainte‐Marie Bram Taylor (show 8 more)		Song	English
11	The Baffled Knight	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (lyricist, composer) [anonymous] (special purpose artist) (composer)	Emily Bishop The Academy Of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood, Sneak's Noyse, Roderick Skeaping		Song	English
12	Scarborough Fair	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (lyricist, composer)	Celtic Woman Nolwenn Leroy Herbie Hancock Nana Mouskouri (show 93 more)		Song	English
12	The Elfin Knight (aka Scarborough Fair / Whittingham Fair / Rosemary Lane; title is easily confused with Child #4, check lyrics)	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (writer)	Ewan MacColl & Peggy Seeger Shirley Collins Kate Rusby Espers (show 8 more)		Song	English
13	The Dowie Dens o Yarrow	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (lyricist, composer) Karine Polwart (arranger)	Joni Mitchell Dick Gaughan Davie Stewart Lori Watson Karine Polwart		Song
14	The Daemon Lover	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (lyricist, composer)	The Pentangle Clarence Ashley Jeff Lang Myrkur (show 13 more)		Song	English
15	Pretty Polly	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (lyricist, composer)	Bob Dylan The Stanley Brothers Sandy Denny QueenAdreena (show 28 more)		Song	English
16	Frog Went a-Courtin’ (Original version)	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (lyricist, composer)	Doc Watson Pete Seeger Elvis Presley Chubby Parker and His Old Time Banjo (show 9 more)		Song	English
17	The Three Butchers	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (writer)			Song	English
18	The Bramble Briar (aka Bruton Town / The Merchant's Daughter / The Murdered Servantman)	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (lyricist, composer)	The Pentangle Sandy Denny Ewan MacColl with Peggy Seeger Louis Killen (show 16 more)		Song	English
19	The Thresherman	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (writer)			Song	English
20	The False Knight on the Road	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (writer)	Simon Nicol Tim Hart & Maddy Prior Gilmore & Roberts Artus Moser Charles Jordan & Joyce Sullivan		Song	English
21	The Outlandish Knight (title is easily confused with Child #2, check lyrics)	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (writer)	Nic Jones Martin Carthy Shirley & Dolly Collins Steeleye Span (show 20 more)		Song	English
22	Gil Brenton	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (writer)			Song	English
23	Earl Brand	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (writer)	Henry McGregor Ewan MacColl		Song	English
24	Erlinton	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (writer)			Song	English
25	The Fair Flower of Northumberland	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (writer)	Rachel Unthank & the Winterset		Song	English
26	The Cruel Brother (aka The Three Knights / The Rose and the Lily)	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (composer, lyricist)	Battlefield Band Archie Fisher Eliza Carthy & Norma Waterson Sophie Crawford (show 2 more)		Song	English
27	The Bonnie Banks of Fordie (aka Babylon)	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (writer)	Old Blind Dogs M.J. Harris & Martyn Bates Nic Jones Malinky (show 2 more)		Song	English
28	Hind Horn	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (writer)	Maddy Prior Ewan MacColl Brian Peters Chris Coe The Furrow Collective		Song	English
29	Bold Sir Rylas (aka Sir Lionel / Rackabello)	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (writer)	Spiers & Boden Waterson:Carthy The Furrow Collective		Song	English
30	Willie's Lyke-Wake	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (lyricist, composer)			Song	Scots
31	The Trees They Grow So High (Original folksong)	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (writer)	Joan Baez The Pentangle Judy Collins The John Renbourn Group (show 2 more)		Song	English
32	Kempy Kay		Jock Tamson’s Bairns Martin Carthy		Song	English
34	Broomfield Hill (aka The Broomfield Wager / A Wager, A Wager)	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (writer)	Tim Hart and Maddy Prior Martin Carthy John Roberts & Tony Barrand with Fred Breunig & Steve Woodruff June Tabor (show 15 more)		Song	English
35	Tam Lin	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (writer)	Fairport Convention Anne Briggs Mike Waterson A. L. Lloyd (show 5 more)		Song	English
36	Captain Wedderburn's Courtship	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (writer)	Great Big Sea Ian & Sylvia Ewan MacColl Thomas Moran (show 2 more)		Song	English
38	The Twa Brothers	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (writer, lyricist, composer)	Silly Wizard Peggy Seeger and Ewan Mac Coll Rattle On The Stovepipe		Song	English Scots
40	Young Beichan	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (lyricist, composer)	Sinéad O’Connor feat. Christy Moore Sandy Denny Jim Moray Nic Jones (show 5 more)		Song	English
41	Sir Patrick Spens	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (composer)	Fairport Convention Martin Carthy Kris Drever Michiel Schrey, Seán Dagher, Richard Irwin & David Gossage (show 8 more)		Song	English
45	Lady Maisry	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (lyricist, composer)	Country Parish Music		Song	English
47	Young Hunting (aka Henry Lee / Love Henry / The Proud Girl / Earl Richard)	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (lyricist, composer)	Dick Justice John Roberts & Tony Barrand with Fred Breunig & Steve Woodruff ØXN Ralph Stanley (show 3 more)		Song	English
48	Lord Lovell	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (composer)	Jean Ritchie [unknown] Hennessys Country Parish Music		Song	English
49	The Lass of Roch Royal	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (lyricist, composer)	Judy Collins Jean Ritchie Lisa O'Neill Neil Morris		Song
50	Sweet William’s Ghost (aka Lady Margaret)	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (writer)	Kate Rusby Cassie Franklin Paddy Tunney Maggie Boyle (show 6 more)		Song	English
51	The Unquiet Grave	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (lyricist, composer)	Gryphon Joan Baez Lau Shirley Collins (show 37 more)		Song	English
52	Matty Groves	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (lyricist, composer)	Fairport Convention Doc Watson Moriarty Robyn Hitchcock (show 11 more)		Song	English
54	Barbara Allen	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (lyricist, composer)	Bob Dylan Joan Baez Shirley Collins Doris Day (show 43 more)		Song	English
56	Young Johnson (Young Johnstone)	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (lyricist)	Betsy Whyte Alasdair Roberts, Amble Skuse & David McGuinness June Tabor Jackie Oates (show 3 more)
60	Died for Love	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (lyricist, composer)	Shirley Collins Martin Carthy & Dave Swarbrick Elizabeth Cronin John Roberts & Tony Barrand Hannah James & Sam Sweeney		Song	English
64	Willie of Winsbury	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (lyricist, composer)	Anne Briggs The Pentangle Offa Rex Dick Gaughan (show 11 more)		Song	English
67	The Knight and the Shepherd's Daughter (Roud 67; Child 110)	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (writer)	Steeleye Span John Strachan The Young Tradition		Song	English
73	Sir Hugh	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (writer)	Nelstone’s Hawaiians Cecilia Costello Ollie Gilbert		Song	English
74	Queen Eleanor's Confession	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (writer)	Tim Hart and Maddy Prior The Furrow Collective Fay Hield		Song	English
79	Mary Hamilton (child ballad 173)	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (writer)	Joan Baez Rebecca Pidgeon Jeannie Robertson Sara Banleigh Harvey Reid		Song	English
87	The Water Is Wide (18th Century shanty)	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (lyricist, composer)	Barbra Streisand Sarah McLachlan, Indigo Girls & Jewel Hayley Westenra Celtic Woman (show 47 more)		Song	English
90	Geordie (aka Georgie)	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (writer, lyricist, composer)	Joan Baez Trees Martin Carthy Sandy Denny (show 15 more)		Song	English
91	Clyde's Water (aka The Mother's Malison / The Drowned Lovers)	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (writer)	Kate Rusby Nic Jones John Strachan Jon Boden (show 5 more)		Song	English
92	The Broom o’ the Cowdenknowes (aka Bonny May)	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (lyricist, composer)	June Tabor Silly Wizard Offa Rex Cherish the Ladies (show 11 more)		Song	Scots
93	Katherine Jafray	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (lyricist, composer)	Cecilia Costello & Thomas Moran		Song	English
95	Glasgow Peggy	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (lyricist, composer)	Ewan MacColl & Peggy Seeger Silly Wizard		Song	Scots
97	Richie Story	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (writer)	Shirley Collins Trembling Bells Jackie Oates Peggy Seeger and Ewan Mac Coll		Song	English
99	The Earl of Aboyne	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (lyricist, composer)	June Tabor		Song	Scots
101	Glenlogie	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (lyricist, composer)	Shirley & Dolly Collins John Strachan Dick Gaughan TRADarrr Ron Taylor and Jeff Gillett		Song
102	Annachie Gordon	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (composer)	Loreena McKennitt The Unthanks		Song	English
103	The Rantin Laddie	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (lyricist, composer)	Willie Mathieson		Song	Scots
104	Henry Martin	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (lyricist, composer)	Figgy Duff Joan Baez [traditional] Chris Maden (show 4 more)		Song	English
114	Our Goodman	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (lyricist, composer)	Coley Jones J.E. Mainer and Band E.C. and Orna Ball Ruth Hazleton & Kate Burke		Song	English
115	Get Up and Bar the Door (aka The Barring of the Door / John Blunt)	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (writer)	Peggy Seeger and Ewan Mac Coll		Song
118	The Jolly Beggarman	Trad. (writer)	Planxty Ceolbeg Walsh & Pound Løvstakken		Song	English
120	The Keach in the Creel	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (lyricist, composer)	Subway to Sally Paul Brady Michael Gallagher		Song
122	Golden Vanity	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (lyricist, composer) Alan Lomax (publishing) Samuel Pepys (publishing) Peter Kennedy (co-author Classic Ballads of Britain and Ireland) (publishing)	Bob Dylan Cisco Houston Jean Ritchie Dodie Chalmers (show 7 more)		Song	English
124	The Mermaid	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (composer, lyricist)	William Howell New Model Army Jorma Kaukonen Sons of Maxwell (show 2 more)		Song	English
126	The Derby Ram	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (lyricist, composer)	The Watersons Grandpa Jones And Delmore Brothers		Song	English
124	The Mermaid	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (composer, lyricist)	William Howell New Model Army Jorma Kaukonen Sons of Maxwell (show 2 more)		Song	English
127	The Seven Virgins	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (lyricist, composer)	Greanvine Sandy Denny The Watersons Ralph Vaughan Williams (show 3 more)		Song	English
130	Three Jolly Rogues of Lynn (King Arthur's Servants / Three Jolly Rogues of Lynn / Three Sons of Rogues)	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (lyricist, composer)	Tim Hart and Friends The Watersons George Maynard Pop Maynard (show 2 more)		Song	English
131	The Fox (aka Daddy Fox / A Fox Jumped Up)	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (writer, lyricist, composer)	Nickel Creek Pete Seeger Bill Staines The Blue Sky Boys (show 8 more)		Song	English
133	Children Go Where I Send Thee	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (lyricist, composer)	Nina Simone Johnny Cash Nick Lowe Scala & Kolacny Brothers (show 36 more)		Song	English
134	High Barbary	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (lyricist, composer)	Joseph Arthur Fisherman’s Friends The Mountain Goats Bounding Main (show 3 more)		Song	English
135	Cold, Haily, Windy Night	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (writer)	Steeleye Span Chris Wood, Eliza Carthy, Martin Carthy and The Young Coppers with Trans-Global Underground Martin Carthy Chris Wood (show 2 more)		Song	English
136	Orfeo (aka King Orfeo / Young Orphy)	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (lyricist, composer)	Anna & Elizabeth Coleman Grey Andrew Calhoun		Song	English
137	Widdicombe Fair (Devon folk song)	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (lyricist, composer)	Tim Hart and Friends The Madrigal Singers [unknown] Leonard Feather and Ye Olde English Swynge Band (show 2 more)		Song	English
138	The Miller and His Sons (The Miller’s Three Sons / The Derby Miller)	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (lyricist)	Jumbo Brightwell		Song
141	The Golden Glove (aka The Squire of Tamworth)	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (lyricist, composer)	Fairport Convention John Wesley Harding Nic Jones Jim Moray (show 5 more)		Song	English
144	The Maid Freed From the Gallows (traditional song - not the Led Zep arrangement)	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (lyricist, composer)	Neil Young & Crazy Horse Spiers & Boden Judy Collins Jean Ritchie (show 6 more)		Song	English
145	Glasgerion	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (lyricist)	Trees		Song	English
148	The Banks of the Sweet Dundee	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (writer)	Grace Notes		Song	English
151	The Lark in the Morning (Song: Oh the lark in the morning she rises from her nest)	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (writer)	Steeleye Span Judy Collins Paddy Tunney Jackie Oates (show 7 more)		Song	English
152	Early, Early in the Spring	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (lyricist, composer)	Judy Collins		Song	English
154	I Once Loved a Lass	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (writer)	Sandy Denny The Pentangle [traditional] Rosemary Standley & Helstroffer’s Band (show 2 more)		Song	English
155	Mary of the Wild Moor	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (lyricist, composer)	Mac Wiseman The Louvin Brothers Mac Wiseman with The Shenandoah Cut Ups Bob Dylan (show 5 more)		Song	English
157	Banks of the Ohio	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (writer)	Olivia Newton‐John The Monroe Brothers Dolly Parton The Country Gentlemen (show 21 more)		Song	English
158	William Taylor (aka Bold William Taylor)	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (lyricist, composer)	Patrick Street Martin Carthy Dave Burland Malinky (show 11 more)		Song	English
160	The Devil and the Ploughman	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (lyricist, composer)	Judy Collins Séamus Ennis Bill & Belle Reed Bellowhead (show 4 more)		Song	English
161	The Three Sisters (aka Riddles Wisely Expounded / The Devil's Nine Questions / Juniper, Gentle and Rosemary / Bow Down to the Bonny Broom)	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (writer)	Steeleye Span Sophie Crawford Burl Ives Bruce Molsky (show 10 more)		Song	English
162	Trooper and the Maid	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (lyricist, composer)	Charlotte Cumberbirch, Seán Dagher, Nelson Carter, Richard Irwin & David Gossage Jimmy MacBeath Stramash Orkney Fiddle Gathering House Band featuring Jeana Leslie and Jenny Keldie		Song
164	John Barleycorn (traditional, unknown/unspecified arrangement)	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (lyricist, composer)	Fairport Convention Paul Weller, Martin Carthy and Eliza Carthy The Watersons Subway to Sally (show 6 more)		Song	English
165	Adieu Lovely Nancy	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (lyricist, composer)	Tim Hart and Maddy Prior Altan Martin Simpson The Copper Family (show 9 more)		Song	English
166	Polly Vaughn (Polly Vaughan / The Fowler / The Shooting of His Dear)	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (writer)	Shirley Collins The Dillards Chris de Burgh Martin Carthy with Dave Swarbrick (show 4 more)		Song	English
171	Rambleaway (Young Rambleaway / Derry Down Fair)	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (lyricist)	The Albion Band Shirley Collins The Young Tradition John Roberts & Tony Barrand (show 10 more)

Relationships

subseries of:	Folk Song Collections

Wikidata:	Q49679 [info]