The Oxford Book of Ballads - Unknown

[1309] theekit = thatched.

[1310] haugh = water-mead.

[1311] biek = bask.

[1312] sin = sun.

[INDEX OF FIRST LINES]

The numbers are ballad numbers, not page numbers.

A fair maid sat in her bower door [72]
A ship I have got in the North Country [132]
A wonder stranger ne’er was known [175]
About Yule when the wind blew cule [82]
Adieu, madame, my mother dear [151]
A’ the boys of merry Lincoln [79]
All the trees they are so high [156]
All under the leaves and the leaves of life [111]
An ancient story I’ll tell you anon [173]
An earthly nourrice sits and sings [31]
Annan water’s wading deep [92]
As I pass’d by a river side [102]
As I sat under a sycamore tree [104]
As I was a-walking mine alane [140]
As I was cast in my first sleepe [59]
As I was walking all alane [67]
As I was walking mine alane [11]
As it befel in midsummer-time [130]
As it fell on a holy-day [133]
As it fell on one holy-day [50]
As it fell out on a long summer’s day [62]
As it fell out one May morning [110]
As it fell out upon a day [109]
Be it right or wrong these men among [69]
But how many months be in the year? [118]
By Arthur’s Dale as late I went [74]
Can I not sing but ‘Hoy’ [103]
Childe Maurice hunted the Silver Wood [47]
Childe Waters in his stable stood [46]
Clerk Colven and his gay ladie [29]
Clerk Saunders and may Margaret [27]
Come, all you brave gallants, and listen a while [119]
Come, gentlemen all, and listen a while [120]
Come listen to me, yon gallants so free [121]
Cospatrick has sent o’er the faem [5]
Der lived a king inta da aste [15]
Erlinton had a fair daughter [37]
Ettrick Forest is a fair forest 84
Fair Margret was a proud ladye [26]
False Sir John a-wooing came [10]
Foul fa’ the breast first treason bred in! [139]
Four-and-twenty nobles rade to the King’s ha’ [85]
Glasgerion was a King’s own son [40]
God! let never soe old a man [53]
God send the land deliverance [146]
Gude Lord Scroope’s to the hunting gane [143]
Hearken to me, gentlemen [41]
Her mother died when she was young [13]
Hie upon Hielands [96]
Hit wes upon a Scere-thorsday [97]
Hynd Horn’s bound, love, and Hynd Horn’s free [35]
‘I am as brown as brown can be [157]
I have heard talk of bold Robin Hood [123]
‘I heard a cow low, a bonnie cow low [7]
I herde a carpyng of a clerk [112]
I was a lady of high renown [87]
‘I was but seven year auld [14]
I wish I were where Helen lies [152]
In Cawsand Bay lying, with the Blue Peter flying [168]
In London was Young Beichan born [45]
In Scarlet town, where I was born [158]
In seventeen hundred and ninety-four [169]
In somer, when the shawes be sheyne [117]
In summer time, when leaves grow green [118]
In summer time, when leaves grow green [124]
In the third day of May [17]
Inverey cam’ doun Deeside, whistlin’ and playin’ [149]
It fell about the Lammas tide [127]
It fell about the Martinmas [77]
It fell about the Martinmas time [172]
It fell about the Martinmas tyde [141]
It fell on a day, and a bonnie simmer day [135]
It fell upon a Wadensday [21]
It’s Lamkin was a mason good [78]
It’s narrow, narrow, mak your bed [42]
It was a blind beggar, had long lost his sight [163]
It was a knight in Scotland born [71]
It was intill a pleasant time [25]
It was the worthy Lord of Lorn 76
Jesus, Lord mickle of might [3]
Johnnie rose up in a May morning [136]
Joseph was an old man [101]
King Easter has courted her for her lands [70]
Kinge Arthur lives in merry Carlisle [19]
Lady Alice was sitting in her bower-window [154]
Late at e’en, drinkin’ the wine [150]
Let never a man a wooing wend [16]
Lithe and listen, Gentlemen [115]
Lord Bateman was a noble lord [164]
Lord Ingram and Childe Vyet [51]
Lord Lovel he stood at his castle-gate [155]
Lord Thomas and Fair Annet [54]
Lordings, listen, and hold you still [126]
Lully, lulley! lully, lulley! [100]
Marie Hamilton’s to the kirk gane [83]
Mark this song, for it is true [108]
May Margaret sits in her bower door [36]
Mery it was in the grene foreste [114]
‘My love has built a bonny ship, and set her on the sea [160]
My love he built me a bonny bower [153]
My plaid awa’, my plaid awa’ [8]
Now is Christëmas y-come [107]
Now Liddesdale has lain lang in [142]
Now Liddesdale has ridden a raid [138]
Now list and lithe, you gentlemen [129]
Now ponder well, you parents dear [174]
O Alison Gross, that lives in yon tow’r [12]
O Bessie Bell and Mary Gray [176]
O bonny Baby Livingston [147]
‘O brent’s your brow, my Lady Elspat [86]
O did ye ever hear o’ brave Earl Brand? [38]
O have ye na heard o’ the fause Sakelde? [137]
O heard ye na o’ the silly blind Harper [144]
‘O I forbid you, maidens a’ [2]
O Jellon Grame sit in Silverwood [49]
‘O lady, rock never your young son young [30]
O Rose the Red and White Lilly 55
O the Ploughboy was a ploughing [167]
‘O well’s me o’ my gay goss-hawk [60]
‘O wha will shoe my bonny foot? [43]
O wha would wish the wind to blau [48]
‘O where hae ye been, Lord Randal, my son? [66]
‘O where hae ye been, my long, long love [28]
O Willie’s large o’ limb and lith [113]
O wow for day! [50]
Of a’ the maids o’ fair Scotland [91]
Our King he kept a false steward [4]
Prince Robert has wedded a gay ladye [58]
‘Rise up, rise up, now Lord Douglas,’ she says [39]
Saies, ‘Come here, cuzen Gawaine so gay [18]
Saint Stephen was a clerk [98]
She lean’d her back unto a thorn [22]
Sum speiks of lords, sum speiks of lairds [89]
Sweet Willy’s taen him o’er the faem [6]
The Angel Gabriel from God [106]
The bonny heir, and the well faur’d heir [80]
The Duke of Gordon had three daughters [94]
The eighteenth of October [145]
The first good joy our Mary had [105]
The gardener stands in his bower door [159]
The George-Aloe, and the Sweepstake, too [131]
The king sits in Dunfermline town [75]
The maid she went to the well to washe [99]
The Percy out of Northumberland [128]
The shepard upon a hill he sat [103]
‘The wind doth blow to-day, my love [34]
The young lords o’ the north country [73]
There are twelve months in all the year [122]
There cam’ seven Egyptians on a day [148]
‘There is a feast in your father’s house [56]
There lived a wife at Usher’s well [32]
There was a knight and a lady bright [24]
There was a may, and a weel-far’d may [88]
There was a rich lord, and he lived in Forfar [20]
There was a youth, and a well-belovèd youth [162]
There were three ladies play’d at the ba’ [64]
There were three ravens sat on a tree [68]
There were three sisters fair and bright 9
There were twa brethren in the North [63]
There were twa sisters sat in a bour [23]
There where three ladies live in a bower [57]
This ae nighte, this ae nighte [33]
This winter’s weather it waxeth cold [170]
‘Tom Pearse, Tom Pearse, lend me your grey mare [171]
True Thomas lay on Huntlie bank [1]
‘Turn, Willie Macintosh [134]
When captains couragious whom death could not daunte [165]
When Robin Hood and Little John [125]
When shaws beene sheene, and shradds full fayre [116]
When we were silly sisters seven [81]
‘Why does your brand sae drop wi’ blude [65]
Will you hear a Spanish lady [161]
Willie stands in his stable door [90]
‘Willie, Willie, what makes you sae sad?’ [61]
‘Willy’s rare, and Willy’s fair [93]
Ye Highlands and ye Lawlands [95]
‘Ye maun gang to your father, Janet [52]
You beauteous ladies great and small [166]
Young Bekie was as brave a knight [44]