Index to the 'Personal Copy'

(The Killerton manuscript)

 

Introduction

This index has been prepared for the benefit of those who may be looking for particular songs in the Baring-Gould Manuscripts. It has been compiled by working through the Killerton Manuscripts (The Personal Copy) and listing each of the songs together with page numbers as given by Baring-Gould together with his song numbers. Although the second and third manuscript volumes had been indexed, presumably by Baring-Gould himself, there are a number of difficulties (described below) that make these indices less helpful than they might be.

Because of the inconsistencies in the pagination and song numbering I have also devised and used a system for referring to the songs that should make it easier to locate any particular song in the manuscripts.

Since I first produced this index three years ago I have studied the Fair Copy and Rough Manuscript in Plymouth in more detail and with greater understanding as well as exploring the Killerton manuscripts more fully. I have also ‘discovered’ additional notebooks belonging to Baring-Gould which record words to songs as well as correspondence from many of the people who responded to his requests in newspapers for songs. I have also worked through the manuscript for a second time to note the first lines of all the songs. I hope to be in a position, later in 1998, to produce a full index to the various Baring-Gould manuscripts and published collections, which will begin to cross-reference songs between them.

 

Notes on the manuscript

The books at Killerton House represent the core of the family library that was removed from Lewtrenchard Manor in the early 70’s. The greater part of the material in that library had been purchased by Sabine Baring-Gould.

The most significant documents for the folk music enthusiast are three bound manuscript volumes which are his own fair copy of the songs that he collected - over 650 of them, with a number of variants given for several of the songs. This remarkable collection is the primary record of Baring-Gould’s activity in song collecting from 1888 until about 1917.

The first volume is, essentially, the fully detailed collection notes for the first edition of ‘Songs of the West’ There are some differences and, as with the other volumes, Baring-Gould has economically filled the last few pages with additional songs which do not appear in the published volume.

In the second and third volumes SBG decided to leave adequate space between songs to be able to insert variants as he obtained them. In fact this was not necessary by the third volume as he was not collecting as actively and was usually only getting one or two variants for each song. He must have taken a pragmatic decision at some point not to start a fourth volume and, instead, to fill in the spaces as new songs arrived. This, of course, meant that his numbering system no longer had any value and he stopped numbering the songs altogether. In fact he had already created a system that was flawed and, as can be seen from the notes below, this makes reference to songs by page number and song number difficult. For this reason I have developed a numbering system identifying volume, page and song number by which each song can be found.

 

Layout and numbering system used by Baring-Gould:

The layout of the books and the system used for numbering are as follows:

 

 

Numbering system used for this index of the manuscripts

Because of the inconsistencies noted above I have devised a reference system that identifies each song by the Volume Number, the Page Number and the Song Number. In this way it is possible to find songs easily. Thus ‘Sweet Nightingale’ is designated K1 p46 No 57 (or K1.46.57). In each case the pagination and the song numbering is that used by Baring-Gould. I have also recorded where he repeated song numbers by using the designation ‘bis’ for the second occurrence.

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y

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Volume

Page

Number

A’ nutting we will go

1

172

83

Abbot of Canterbury, The

3

279

 

Adam and Eve

1

199

100

Adam and Eve

2

230

239

Adam the poacher

3

47

420

Adieu to old England

2

49

136

All the trees they are so high

1

10

4

Altarnun Volunteer, The

2

252

250

Amo, amas, I love a lass

2

329

301

Among the green hay

2

371

330

Andrew Cuffy

3

230

533

Apple tree carol

2

256

254

Apple Trees, The

1

128

57

Arscott of Tetcott

1

3

2

Arthur le Bride

2

388

340

Arthur of Bradley

3

236

536

As Dolly sat milking her Cow

2

264

261

As I walked out

1

155

73

As I walked out one May morning

3

391

 

As I was tripping along

3

290

 

As Johnny walked out

1

35

11

As Polly walked out

1

210

105

As Tom was a walking

2

 

378

At the dawning of the day

3

352

 

 

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Volume

Page

Number

Bachelors delight, The

3

185

503

Bachelors Easy Life, A

2

298

280

Back and sides go bare

3

126

467

Baffled Knight, The

2

35

129

Bailiffs Daughter, The

2

292

274

Banks of Sweet Dundee (Undaunted female)

3

327

 

Banks of Sweet Primroses

2

109

166

Barbara Allen

2

69

147

Barcelona

2

 

383

Barcelona

3

420

 

Barley Mow

2

321

294

Barley Raking, The

1

175

85

Barley Straw

1

196

98

Barnet Races

3

11

398

Be quick for I'm in haste

2

265

262

Beer

3

377

 

Beggar, The

3

96

449

Bell-ringing, The

1

171

82

Benjamin Bowlabags

3

247

542

Berkshire tragedy

3

401

 

Bibberley Town

1

218

110

Billy my Billy

2

367

328 bis

Billy my boy

3

286

 

Birds' complaint, The

2

272

266

Black and the Grey, The

2

174

205

Black Bess

2

15

121

Black Jack, The

2

259

256

Blind fiddler's song

3

107

456

Blow Away ye Morning Breezes

1

71

25

Blue Muslin

1

61

22

Blue Violets

2

274

267

Blundells School Song

3

400

 

Boatswain's wife

2

394

344

Bold Dragoon, The

1

141

65

Bold Fisherman, The

3

100

452

Bold Privateer, The

2

147

189

Bold Trooper, The

2

4

116

Bonny Blue Handkerchief, The

1

86

36

Bonny boy

3

13

 

Bonny Bunch of Roses, The

1

73

27

Bonny Irish boy

3

168

492

Bonny light horseman

2

216

230

Bonny seaman

3

206

517

Botany Bay

2

 

382

Botany Bay

2

122

171

Botany Bay

3

277

568

Brave, brave Old England’s forces

3

304

 

Brennan on the Moor

2

415

365

Brennan on the Moor

3

418

 

Brisk young butcher, The

3

432

 

Brisk young miner, The

2

115

167 bis

British Man of War

2

132

178

Britons strike home

3

208

519

Brixham Town

1

27

9

Broken Heart, A

2

81

151

Broken Heart, The

3

253

549

Broken Token, The

1

103

44

Brown Girl, The

1

220

111

Buffalo, The

2

168

201

Butter and cheese and ale

3

306

 

By chance it was

1

1

1

 

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Volume

Page

Number

 

 

 

 

Capstan song

3

156

 

Captain Pearse

2

200

219

Captain Ward the pirate

2

385

339

Carol, A

3

436

 

Caroline

3

319

 

Carpenter's Wife, The

2

159

196

Carrier pigeon, The

2

307

286

Catch me if you can

3

109

457

Childe of Plimstock

1

83

33

Children’s game

3

435

 

Child’s game

2

267

263

Chimney Sweep, The

1

58

20

Christmas mummers

3

382

 

Cicely Sweet

1

84

35

Coasts of Barbary, The

2

271

265

Codlin apple tree

3

369

 

Cold and haily night

3

117

462

Cold blows the wind

1

20

6

Colly my cow

3

187

505

Come all you jolly sailors

3

28

408

Come all you shepherds

3

55

425

Come all you worthy….

2

61

144

Come little flock

2

139

183

Come my Lads

1

162

76

Come, Come, Sweet Molly

2

349

314

Complaining maid

2

206

222

Constant Johnny

1

169

80

Contented Farmer's Son, The

1

148

69

Cornish Carol (Rouse, Rouse)

2

247

247

Cornish Midsummer Song

2

421

373

Cornish wassail

2

243

246

Cornish wassail

2

250

249

Cottage on the Hill, The

1

95

40

Cottage Thatched with Straw, The

1

87

34

Cottager’s daughter, The

3

12

399

Country courtship

2

400

353

Country lad am I, A

2

417

371

Country life is sweet, A

2

360

323

Coy Jenny and Constant Johnny

3

186

504

Crazy sailor, The

3

77

438

Creeping Jane

3

269

562

Crocodile, The

3

308

 

Cruel Jane

3

179

498

Cuckold's song, The

2

78

150

Cuckoo (Cornish couplets)

3

250

547

Cuckoo, The

2

336

307

Cup of poison, The

1

144

66

Cupid the Ploughboy

1

160

75

Cupid's Chains

2

151

191

Cupid's courtesy

3

79

439

Cupid's Garden

3

6

394

Cupid's Garden

3

273

565

Cupid's Garden

3

410

 

 

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Volume

Page

Number

Damon and Phyllis

3

51

423

Damsel possessed of great beauty, A

2

209

225

Dead Maid's Land

1

214

108

Death and the Lady

1

197

99

Death of Parker, The

3

34

411

Death of Queen Jane

3

7

395

Deep in Love

1

178

86

Derby Ram, The

3

344

 

Devonshire wooing

3

409

 

Dick Simmins

2

373

332

Dicky Short’s Sad Story

2

 

386

Dilly Song, The

1

165

78

Do you see my Billy coming

2

185

211

Don't go a' rushing

2

2

115

Don’t go a rushing

3

441

 

Don't you see my Billy coming

3

437

 

Down among the banks of roses

3

104

454

Down by a River-side

1

174

84

Dream Lad. The

2

157

195

Drowned Lover, The

1

81

32

Drowned Lover, The

2

416

370

Drum Major, The

2

217

231

Drummer Boy, The

2

304

283

Drunken Maidens, The

1

193

94

Dumb Wife, The

3

194

509

Duke's Hunt, The

1

170

81

 

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Volume

Page

Number

Easter Morning

2

71

147 bis

Effects of love

2

330

302

Egloshayle Ringers, The

2

51

137

English drinks

2

228

237

Enlisting Sergeant, The

1

227

113

Erin's lovely home

3

428

 

Everlasting Circle, The

1

208

104

 

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Volume

Page

Number

Fair Daphne

2

380

336

Fair Girl mind this

1

153

72

Fair lady pity me

3

83

442

False Lover, The (The False Bride)

1

195

97

False swain, The

2

178

207

Fan left on shore

2

344

311

Farewell He

2

 

388

Farewell to Kingsbridge

1

126

55

Farewell to Kingsbridge

1

232

 

Farewell ye Spanish ladies

2

183

210

Farmer lived in the North country, A

3

426

 

Farmers Boy

2

126

174

Farmers Daughter, The

2

237

243

Farmers son so sweet, A

2

57

142

Farrier’s Song, The (Twankidillo)

2

276

269

Farrol my carrol

2

222

234

Fathom the Bowl

1

44

14

Female Cabin Boy

2

98

160

Female Robber, The

2

97

159

Fickle Minded Sally

3

265

558

Fill, my boys, fill

3

145

479

Fisher Boy, The

2

294

277

Fisherman's daughter, The

3

216

524

Fit comes on me now, The

3

102

453

Flailman, The

2

291

273 bis

Flora, the flower of the West

2

135

180

Flora, the lily of the West

3

256

551

Flowers and Weeds (Sprig of Thyme)

1

23

7

Flowers of Maiden Lane, The

2

396

346

Flowers of the valley, The

2

188

213

Flowery land of Canaan

3

143

478

Foggy dew, The

2

166

200

Follow my love

3

193

508

Foolish Boy, The

2

269

264

Forsaken Maiden, The (A maiden sat a-weeping)

1

94

39

Four Evangelists, The

3

406

 

Fox, The

2

120

170

Fox and Goose, The

3

358

 

Fox hunt, The

2

 

381

Fox hunting song (Tally ho hark away)

3

321

 

Fragment

3

151

483

Free and Easy

3

10

397

Frigate well manned, A

2

327

299

Frog and mouse, The

2

310

288

Frog and mouse, The

3

359

 

 

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Volume

Page

Number

Gaffer Grey

3

380

 

Gallant Poacher, The

2

13

120

Garden Gate, The

2

318

292

Garland of flowers

3

183

501

Gay girls of London, The

3

114

460

General Wolfe

2

219

232

Georgie

3

202

514

Gilderoy

3

41

416

Giles and Sarah

3

64

432

Giles Collins

3

362

 

Go from my window

2

27

126

Golden Glove, The

3

421

 

Good Comrade, The

2

17

122

Good morrow Moll

2

398

347

Gosport Beach

1

127

56

Gossip Joan

2

358

322

Gown of green, The

2

 

389

Gown of green, The

3

113

459

Gown of green, The

3

416

 

Grand conversation under the rose

3

40

415

Grand conversation with Napoleon

3

338

 

Grandmothers lessons

3

354

 

Great Boobie, The

3

61

429

Green Bed, The

1

187

91

Green Besom, The

2

11

119

Green Besom, The

2

233

241

Green Broom

1

30

10

Green Bushes, The

1

101

43

Green Cockade, The (White Cockade)

1

88

37

Green Gown, The

2

9

118

Green Gravel

3

49

422

Greenland Whale Fishery

2

95

158

Greenwich pensioner

3

433

 

Grey Mare, The

1

118

51

Grist the Miller

2

347

313

Ground for the floor

2

260

257

Ground for the floor

3

299

 

Gypsy Countess, The

1

113

50

 

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Volume

Page

Number

Hal an Tow (Helston Furry Dance)

1

69

24

Hard times in England

3

161

488

Hark! Hark! The dogs do bark

2

354

318

Hark, Hark, The dogs do bark

3

378

 

Harmless Molly

2

381

337

Harry Bluff

3

135

473

Harry the Tailor

2

145

188

Harvest home

2

429

377

Harvest song

3

129

469

Harvest song, The

2

37

130

Have you seen my Moggy

2

235

242

Hawthorn bush

2

113

167

Hay Making Song

1

216

109

Haymakers, The

3

302

 

He lives by the sweat of his brow

3

282

 

Hearty Good Fellow, The

1

72

26

Heigh Ho!

2

328

300

Henry Martyn

1

122

53

Here's a health to Victoria

3

19

403

Herrings Head, The

2

154

193

High Germany

2

66

146

Highwayman, the

2

75

149

Hole in the Stocking, The

2

275

268

Holland Smock

2

375

333

Honest ploughman, The or Ninety years ago

3

251

548

Hop me with thy petticoat

3

207

518

Hostess's Daughter, The

1

150

70

Hundred Haymakers, The

3

440

 

Hunting song

2

182

209

Hunting the hare

1

212

106

Hunting the hare

2

136

181

Hunting the hare

3

257

552

Husbandman and serving man

2

423

374

Husbandman and serving man

3

348

 

 

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Volume

Page

Number

I can let it alone

2

59

143

I had four sisters

3

372

 

I like a little farm

3

146

480

I married a wife and I brought her home

3

288

 

I married a wife and I brought her home

3

334

 

I married a wife, oh then

3

218

525

I rode my little Horse

1

201

101

I saw two ships

3

24

406

I should very much like to know

3

243

540

I was brought up in Cornwall…..

3

293

 

I went to my true love's house

1

139

63

I would I were a little bird

2

202

220

I would if I were not so young

2

357

320

I would that I were but a Sparrow

3

60

428

I would that the wars were all over

2

417

366

I'm a man that has have injured my parents

3

255

550

I'm ninety five

2

289

273

I, friend, drink to thee

3

245

541

If I had a thousand a year

3

158

485

If I had Gold and Silver Store

3

72

436

If I had two ships

2

398

351

If roses be but fading flowers

3

16

 

In Bedfordshire town

3

37

413

In Bodmin town

2

170

203

In Cawsand Bay

2

82

152

In Southampton city

3

153

484

In summer time

 

313

 

In the days when I was hard up

3

165

490

In the snow

3

32

410

In the winter of life

3

137

475

In yonder Grove

1

194

96

Indian lass, The

3

159

486

Isle of France

3

43

418

Isle of France

3

430

 

 

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Volume

Page

Number

Jack in his Element

2

332

303

Jack of many trades

3

351

 

Jack Robinson

3

136

474

Jacky my Son

2

365

328

Jan's courtship

1

79

31

Jinny Jan

2

63

145

Joe the Collier’s Son

3

88

445

John and his mother

2

248

248

John and his mother

3

239

538

John Barleycorn

2

92

157

Johnny Greyman

3

180

499

Jolly boys that follow the plough

2

40

131

Jolly Brisk Tar

3

205

516

Jolly Goshawk

1

151

71

Jolly Miller, The

2

390

342

Jolly Shilling, The

3

332

 

Jolly Waggoner, the

2

83

153

Jordan

2

342

310

Joy and Sorrows

3

201

513

Just as the tide was flowing

3

121

464

 

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Volume

Page

Number

Keenly Lode, The

3

228

531

Keeper, The (The Merry Doe)

3

17

402

King and the Countryman, The

3

170

493

King and the Countryman, The

3

434

 

King Henry V and the King of France

3

367

 

 

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Volume

Page

Number

Lace merchant, The

3

329

 

Lady and ‘Prentice

2

72

148

Lady in the West, A

2

378

335

Lady Isabell's tragedy

3

214

523

Lady Money

3

189

506

Lady turned highwayman

2

90

156

Landlord fill the bowl

2

 

380

Langolee

3

123

465

Lark in the morn, The

2

258

255

Lasses, The

2

325

297

Lavender Green

3

196

510

Leather Breeches

3

342

 

Leave me alone

2

207

223

Leicestershire Chambermaid

3

4

392

Lemonday

1

230

 

Let Bucks a hunting go

2

340

309

Let me in

3

174

495

Let's go out a' shooting

3

386

 

Life is chequered

2

363

326

Limbo

2

402

355

Linnet, The

3

268

561

Little Bonny Boy

2

333

304

Little Catch, A

2

229

238

Little Cock Sparrow

3

360

 

Little Dun Mare, The

2

278

270

Little girl down the lane, The

2

419

367

Little old woman who went to market, The

3

381

 

Little Sir William

3

364

 

Lonely Nancy, sad lamenting

2

409

360

Lord Arthur

2

176

206

Lord Bateman

2

424

375

Lord Bateman

3

260

554

Lord Lovell

3

387

 

Lord Thomas

3

375

 

Lost - a heart

3

26

407

Lost lady found

2

 

387

Lost Lady Found, The

2

315

290

Lowlands of Holland, The

1

204

103

Loyal Lover, The

1

189

92

Lubin’s Rural cot

3

35

412

Lullaby

1

112

49

Lying Tale, A

2

44

134

 

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Volume

Page

Number

Maid and her swain, The

3

381

 

Maid and Lantern, The

3

15

401

Maid and the Box, The

1

222

112

Maid milking her cow, The

2

350

315

Maid of Chatham, The

2

411

368

Maid of the Mill, The

2

156

194

Maid was I, A

3

272

564

Maiden Sweet in May, A

1

41

13

Maiden under willow

2

249

248 bis

Maids Lament for the loss of her Maidenhead, A

1

228

 

Maids of Australia, The

3

166

491

Make Hay whilst Sun shines

2

302

282

Mallard, The

1

168

79

Many hours I have rambled

3

389

 

Marigold, The

3

227

530

Married man's lament

3

184

502

Masterpiece of love songs, The

2

106

165

Matchless Maid, The

2

353

317

May Day Carol

1

106

47

May song

2

263

260

Mermaid, The

2

319

293

Merry bachellor

2

53

139

Merry Broomfield, The

2

426

376

Merry little soldier, A

2

196

217

Midsummer Carol

1

184

89

Miller's Last Will, The

1

38

12

Miller's Wedding, The

2

362

325

Minnie Clyde

3

38

414

Miraculous Hen, The

2

1

114

Miser, The

3

229

532

Miserly Aunt, The

3

198

511

Miss Betsy Watson

3

412

 

Mole catcher, The

2

140

184

Molly O!

2

335

306

Mother and Daughter

2

55

141

Mother and her Babe, The

2

255

253

Mower, The

1

202

102

Mowing the barley

3

405

 

Mr ….. will never be bothered

3

267

560

My dog and I

3

68

434

My false love is fled

2

262

259

My father gave me an acre of land

3

407

 

My father's old farm

3

223

528

My Lady's Coach

1

78

30

My mother did so before me

3

97

450

My mother did so before me

3

211

521

My mother sent me out

3

404

 

My Old friend John

3

238

537

My Phillida adieu

3

63

431

My Valentine

3

163

489

 

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Volume

Page

Number

Nancy

1

110

48

Nancy, Nancy

3

262

555

Near London town

3

314

 

Ned and Gillian

3

85

443

New Garden Fields

2

389

341

New mown hay

2

 

379

New York Street

2

220

233

Nice young maidens

2

369

329

Ninety years ago

3

284

 

Ninety years ago

3

337

 

No, my love, no

3

42

417

Nobleman and shoemaker

3

341

 

Nobleman and the Thresher, The

3

422

 

Norfolk harvest song

3

14

400

North Country Maid

3

350

 

Nothing else to do

2

208

224

Nursery rhymes

3

58

427

 

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Volume

Page

Number

O lark on high

3

178

497

O no my love, not I

2

211

227

Oh that I had my heart

3

21

404

Oh what's the matter now

3

53

424

Old bachelor

3

408

 

Old Couple, The

2

406

358

Old Ewe, The

3

134

472

Old Humphrey Hodge

2

396

350

Old maid's song, The (Some at eighteen)

2

408

359

Old man and his wife

3

357

 

Old man can't keep his wife at home, The

3

45

419

Old Singing Man, The

1

76

28

Old times and new

2

404

356

Old Veyther

2

52

138

Old Woman, The

2

334

305

On board a ninety eight

3

300

 

On the dew so pearly

2

111

166 bis

One Evening so Clear

1

97

41

One Michaelmas morn

2

401

354

One night at 10 o' clock

2

377

334

Ormond the brave

2

172

204

Outlandish Knight, The

1

134

62

Outward bound

2

141

185

Owl (Jolly nose), The

3

8

 

Owl, The

3

324