Folk songs collected by Ralph Vaughan Williams / edited by Roy Palmer.

The pride of Kildare -- I had one man -- Bonnie Susie Cleland -- May song -- Lord Ellenwater -- The keeper -- The lousy tailor -- The nine joys of Mary -- Blackwell merry night -- Geordie Gill -- King Roger -- Down in yon forest -- The green bed -- Franklin's crew -- Brennan on the moor -- Bushes and briars -- The golden glove -- The cambric shirt -- New garden fields -- The old garden gate -- Robin Hood and the pedler -- The fisherman -- Keepers and poachers -- The merry green broom fields -- Fountains flowing -- The jolly harrin' -- The buffalo -- Elwina of Waterloo -- Long Lankin : Young Lambkin -- The constant lovers -- The banks of green willow -- Robin Hood and the three squires -- Fare ye well, lovely Nancy -- Jockey and Jenny -- God bless the master -- Pretty Nancy -- Nelson's monument -- The lowlands of Holland -- The drowned sailor -- Riding down to Portsmouth -- On Christmas Day -- Dives and Lazarus -- The carnal and the crane -- The bitter withy -- The rocks of Scilly -- A brisk young sailor -- The myrtle tree -- The blacksmith -- The drowsy sleeper -- O who is that? -- Wassail song -- Orange and blue -- The captain's apprentice -- Ward the pirate -- Spurn point -- John Reilly -- Young Henry the poacher -- Edward Jorgen -- Just as the tide was flowing -- The Cumberland's crew -- The loss of the Ramillies --

John Raeburn -- A dream of Napoleon -- The tarry sailor -- Homeward bound -- Lovely on the water -- The holly twig -- Bold Carter -- Trot away -- Liverpool play -- The man of Birmingham town -- Horse race song -- Bonny Robin -- The keys of my heart -- Lullaby -- Willy Foster -- Bizzoms -- Eggleston hall -- Wild and wicked youth -- The Royal George -- Jack Tar -- Lovely Joan -- The dew is on the grass -- The basket of eggs -- Broad-striped trousers -- The red running rue -- The barley straw -- The lads of Kilkenny -- The ranter parson -- High Germany -- The sailor boy -- Horn fair -- The grenadier and the lady -- The ploughboy's dream -- Hunting song -- The lawyer -- All things are quite silent -- The carter -- Early, early in the Spring -- Hurricane wind -- The turtle dove -- The pretty ploughboy -- The witty lass of London -- The young servant man -- Cloddy banks -- Cupid the ploughboy -- The lark in the morning -- The banks of the Nile -- The gallant Rainbow -- The rambling sailor -- Duke William -- Creeping Jane -- Through moorfields -- The convict's lamentation -- The Cheshire gate -- An acre of land -- Through the groves -- Young William -- I married a wife -- The milkmaids -- I courted an old man.

Melody line with lyrics ; additional verses printed as text.

Includes background notes to songs.

Includes index.

"Sources and notes" (p. 185-201).