Ballads Thrice Twisted

Most of these ballads were brought over from the British Isles and preserved by traditional singers in remote parts of New England. Thirteen are from the Helen Hartness Flanders Collection [FC]. Ten are accompanied by dulcimer.

1. STREETS OF DERRY Laws L11 [FC]
2. ROBIN HOOD RESCUING THREE SQUIRES Child 140 [FC]
3. KING JOHN AND THE BISHOP Child 45 [FC]
4. KING HENRY THE FIFTH'S CONQUEST OF FRANCE Child 164 [FC]
5. ANDREW BARDEEN Child 167 [FC]
6. RUMMY CROCODILE  [FC]                                           
7. CLERK COLVIN Child 42, tune Child Volume V
8. THE BRAES OF YARROW Child 214 [FC]      
9. EARL BRAND Child 7
10. WILKES LOVELL The Honorable Wilkes Lovell was sheriff of Windsor County, Vermont, in the 1890s. [FC]
11. LADY ISABEL AND THE ELF-KNIGHT Child 4 [FC]
12. ROBIN HOOD AND THE PEDLAR Child 132 [FC]
13. HI LOW JACK AND THE GAME [FC]
14. THE MAJOR'S BRITCHES Laws Q10 [FC]
15. KEMP OWYNE Child 34, tune in Volume V
16. YORKSHIRE BITE or NEW HAMPSHIRE BITE Laws L1 [FC]
17. SONORAN CAMELS © 1998 Margaret MacArthur. Camels were brought to Texas in 1856 to be used while engineering Route 66.