An English Folk Music Anthology

An English Folk Music Anthology, recorded between 1974 and 1980, features 47 tracks of nursery songs, ballads, and broadsides, as well as more contemporary political and union songs. Performers include rural and urban singers from all walks of life (housewives, retired bankers, coal miners, and many more), travelers, and children. The liner notes provide information on English folk music as well as song lyrics, and background on each track; there are also extensive references and a bibliography.

Track Listing

101	Once in China Harry Stubbs	00:33
102	Old Roger Is Dead Hazel Bibbings	01:11
103	The Fox Mrs. M. Heathman	01:12
104	Kyman I-Doe Harry Stubbs	00:22
105	There Was a Lady Mrs. Green Dora Turner	00:46
106	The Worms Crept Out Mr. Erwin	00:39
107	Children's Songs with Games, Actions Children of Dean School, Cumbria and Primrose Hill School, Birmingham	06:05
108	Henry My Son Alison Bricknell	01:53
109	Parody and Impropriety Schoolchildren in Cumbria, Birmingham, Plymouth, and Devon	03:46
110	Wim Wim Wobble O Troy Penfold	01:14
111	Lent Crocking Song Mrs. M. Heathman	00:47
112	Six Jolly Miners Ted Frost	00:50
113	Cob Coaling Song Dora Turner	00:32
114	The Captain's Song Ted Frost	01:21
115	Carhampton Wassail Song Eric Tarr	00:54
201	The Herring's Head Bill Hingston	03:23
202	The Derby Ram Bob Mills	03:13
203	Lord Lovell Walter Pardon	04:33
204	The Fourteenth of December Lillian Lugg	02:24
205	The Deserter Walter Pardon	02:08
206	The Maid of Australia Walter Pardon	03:56
207	Butter and Cheese and All Mrs. Dowrick	03:38
208	All Jolly Fellows That Follow the Plough Bob Mills	02:39
301	The Two Butchers Nelson Penfold	02:20
302	Young A-Growing Nelson Penfold	01:32
303	He Pulled a Dagger Amy Birch	02:38
304	There Was an Old Man Lived in Yorkshire Amy Birch	02:01
305	The Battle of Sahagun Harry Stubbs	02:46
306	McCathery Mrs. Hawkins	02:53
307	Maggie May Stan Walters	02:11
308	Jimmy MacElbee Mary Duffy	01:38
309	Jimmy Run down to Your Uncles Mary Duffy	00:58
310	Do You Know Me Father / There Was an Old Man / I Lost My Arm Bert Draycott	01:04
311	The Ringarangroo Stan Walters	02:00
312	The Game of Football Mary Duffy	02:20
313	T'Bobbin Winder's Song Essie Dean	01:22
314	The Doggey Putter Bert Draycott	01:35
401	Joe Hill George Strattan	02:32
402	Hallelujah I'm a Bum Bob Hine	01:10
403	Harry Was a Bolshie Ken Penny	03:01
404	The Forty Pound Car Bert Draycott	03:08
405	Canteen Tea Allan Lavercombe	02:30
406	The Big Hewer and the LIttle Marra Bert Draycott	02:22
407	The Shrewsbury Three Joe Kay	03:10
408	Demonstration Songs and Chants Demonstrators, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament March, London	04:01
409	No Cruise Missiles (Bulkley) Campaign Atom Group, Oxford, Oxfordshire	01:45
410	A Simple Lad Like Me Unidentified English folksinger	03:14