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This category contains folk songs which originated in England. For a comprehensive list of 25,000 traditional English language songs, see List of folk songs by Roud number . Contents
English folk songs (47 C, 330 P) Scottish folk songs (13 C, 93 P) Welsh folk songs (1 C, 17 P) * British folk rock songs (39 C, 47 P) K. Michael Kiwanuka songs (4 P) M.
In England A. L. Lloyd was the key figure in introducing erotic songs to the canon, lecturing and publishing on the subject. He recorded The Foggy Dew and Other Traditional English Love Songs in 1959, and then The Bird in the Bush, Traditional Erotic Songs in 1966 with Frankie Armstrong, and Anne Briggs. [73]
A Promenade concert at the Royal Albert Hall in 2004. Throughout the history of the British Isles, the land that is now the United Kingdom has been a major music producer, drawing inspiration from church music and traditional folk music, using instruments from England, Scotland, Northern Ireland, and Wales.
"Over the Hills and Far Away" is a traditional English song, dating back to at least the late 17th century. Two versions were published in the fifth volume of Thomas D'Urfey's Wit and Mirth, or Pills to Purge Melancholy; a version that is similar to the second Wit and Mirth one appears in George Farquhar's 1706 play The Recruiting Officer.
Launched in June 2013, The Full English is a folk archive of 44,000 records and over 58,000 digitised images; it is the world's biggest digital archive of traditional music and dance tunes. [1] The archive brings together 19 collections from noted archivists, including Lucy Broadwood, Percy Grainger, Cecil Sharp and Ralph Vaughan Williams. [1]
Variant of the traditional English folk song "My Boy Billy", collected by Ralph Vaughan Williams. Bingo: Several other titles... [d] Great Britain 1780 [20] [21] Attributed the song to William Swords, an actor at the Haymarket Theatre of London. The identity of "Bingo" in the song is formally ambiguous. Bobby Shafto's Gone to Sea 'Bobby Shafto'
"Greensleeves" is a traditional English folk song. A broadside ballad by the name "A Newe Northen Dittye of ye Ladye Greene Sleves" was registered by Richard Jones at the London Stationers' Company in September 1580, [1] [2] and the tune is found in several late 16th-century and early 17th-century sources, such as Ballet's MS Lute Book and Het Luitboek van Thysius, as well as various ...