Old Ballads
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Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Collection_of_Old_Ballads Release date is 2004-02-01
Come, lasses and lads -- Comin' thro' the rye -- Cherry-ripe -- Annie Laurie -- Robin Adair -- Molly Bawn -- Go, happy Rose! -- The anchor's weigh'd -- Alice Gray -- Home, sweet home -- John Anderson, my jo -- My pretty Jane -- Rock'd in the cradle of the deep -- The minstrel boy -- On the banks of Allan Water -- Auld lang syne -- Within a mile of Edinburgh town -- The night-piece to Julia -- Tom Bowling -- My love is like the red red rose -- Widow Malone -- The jolly young waterman -- Caller herrin' -- A hunting we will go -- Hearts of oak -- The fine old English gentleman -- The Bay of Biscay O! -- Black-eyed Susan -- Duncan Gray -- The bailiff's daughter of Islington -- The miller of Dee -- The angel's whisper -- Simon the Cellarer -- Auld Robin Gray -- Bonnie Dundee -- Sally in our alley -- Kitty of Coleraine -- Here's to the maiden of bashful fifteen -- The leather bottel -- Woodman, spare that tree -- The token -- O, wert thou in the cauld blast -- The passionate shepherd to his love -- Lovely Nan -- The lass of Richmond Hill -- Tell me not, sweet -- She wore a wreath of roses -- O Nanny, wilt thou go with me? -- D'ye ken John Peel?
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"Old Ballads by Various" is a collection published between 1723-1725 in three volumes in London. It was the second major collection of British folksongs to be published, featuring genuine traditional ballads like "Chevy Chase" and "The Suffolk Miracle" alongside Robin Hood tales and Scottish songs. The first printed collection aimed at genuinely old folksongs, it presented 159 texts without musical notation. Its publication inspired Allan Ramsay to create his own collection within a year, marking an important moment in preserving folk tradition. (This is an automatically generated summary.)