
"Captain Car", "Edom o Gordon" (Child 178)." Queen Eleanor's Confession" (Child 156).
" Robin Hood and Queen Katherine" (Child 145). " Robin Hood Rescuing Three Squires" (Child 140). " The Knight and the Shepherd's Daughter" (Child 110). " Brisk Young Sailor (Courted Me)", "The Alehouse", "Died For Love", etc. " Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard" (Child 81). " Lord Ingram and Chiel Wyet" (Child 66). "Lady Maisry", "Bonnie Susie Cleland" (Child 65). " The King's Dochter Lady Jean" (Child 52). " Captain Wedderburn's Courtship" (Child 46). "A-Growing", "He's Young But He's Daily A-Growing" (Laws O35). "Babylon", "The Bonnie Banks o Fordie" (Child 14). " The Fair Flower of Northumberland" (Child 9). " Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight" (Child 4). " The Fause Knight Upon the Road" (Child 3). " The Cruel Ship's Carpenter" (Laws P36A/B). " The Elfin Knight" (Child 2) (also " Scarborough Fair"). "The Female Highwayman", "Sovay" (Laws N21). " Lord Thomas and Fair Annet" (Child 73). " The Sprig of Thyme", " The Seeds of Love", " Garners Gay". " The Raggle Taggle Gypsy" ( Child 200). If a trusted authority gives the name of a song but not the words it is assigned Roud number 000. Closely related songs are grouped under the same Roud number. However, because of the practicalities of compiling the index (building on previously published sources) it is true as a general rule that older and better-known songs tend to occupy low numbers, while songs which are obscure have higher numbers. The numbers were assigned on a more or less arbitrary basis, and are not intended to carry any significance in themselves. The purpose of the index is to give each song a unique identifying number. The English Folk Dance and Song Society (EFDSS) listed 187,800 records in the growing Folksong database as at October 2012 (which total includes all of the songs in the Broadside database that have 'traditional' origins). It is compiled by Steve Roud, a former librarian in the London Borough of Croydon. The index is a database of nearly 200,000 references to nearly 25,000 songs that have been collected from oral tradition in the English language from all over the world. Some of the songs were also included in the collection Jacobite Reliques by Scottish poet and novelist James Hogg. Some well-known songs have low Roud numbers (for example, many of the Child Ballads), but others have high ones. The songs are listed in the index by accession number, rather than (for example) by subject matter or in order of importance. This list (like the article List of the Child Ballads) also serves as a link to articles about the songs, which may use a very different song title. Some publishers have added Roud numbers to books and liner notes, as has also been done with Child Ballad numbers and Laws numbers. #ALLEN GREY FILL ME UP BUTTERCUP FULL#
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