The Child Ballads 1 (The Folk Songs of Britain)

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The Folk Songs of Britain, Vol 4. The Child Ballads 1 [2-95]. Topic Records 12T160. Original issue Caedmon TC1145 (USA), 1961.

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• The Elfin Knight (An Acre of Land; Strawberry Lane) - Bob & Ron Copper, Rottingdean, Sussex, Thomas Moran, Mohill, Co. Leitrim
• The False Knight on the Road – Frank Quinn, Coalisland, Co. Tyrone
• Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight (The Outlandish Knight) – Fred Jordan, Aston Munslow, Salop.
• The Twa Sisters (Binnorie) – John Strachan, Fyvie, Aberdeenshire
• Lord Randal (Lord Donald, My Son) – Jeannie Robertson, Aberdeen; Elizabeth Cronin, Macroom, Co. Cork; Thomas Moran, Mohill, Co. Leitrim; Colm McDonagh, Carna, Galway; Eirlys and Eddis Thomas, Glamorgan, South Wales
• Edward (My Son David) - Jeannie Robertson, Aberdeen; Paddy Tunney, Beleek, Co. Fermanagh; Angela Brasil, Kent
• King Orfeo – John Stickle, Lerwick, Shetland
• The Cruel Mother – Thomas Moran, Mohill, Co. Leitrim
• The Broomfield Wager – Cyril Poacher, Blaxhall, Suffolk
• Captain Wedderburn’s Courtship – Seamus Ennis, Dublin
• The Twa Brothers – Lucy Stewart, Fetterangus, Aberdeenshire
• Lord Bateman (Young Beichan) – Thomas Moran, Mohill, Co. Leitrim; Jeannie Robertson, Aberdeen
• Lord Thomas and Fair Ellen – Jessie Murray, Buckie, Banffshire
• Lord Lovel - Mrs Ethel Findlater, Dounby, Orkney
• Lord Gregory (The Lass of Roch Roy): Elizabeth Cronin, Macroom, Co. Cork
• Barbara Allen – Jessie Murray, Buckie, Banffshire; Fred Jordan, Aston Munslow, Salop; Charlie Wills, near Bridport, Dorset; May Bennell, Amersham, Bucks.; Thomas Moran, Mohill, Co. Leitrim; Phil Tanner, Gower, South Wales
• George Collins – Enos White, Axford, Hants
• The Prickelly Bush (The Maid Freed From the Gallows) – Julia Scaddon, Chideock, Dorset

See Francis J Child