Yesterday during the housebound phase of the day I was furtling around my old bookcase and discovered an 1860 edition of ‘Ballads and Songs of Yorkshire’ by C J Davison Ingledew. I was impressed with the half dozen items related to Robin Hood’s Yorkshire links. Thinking this would provide fertile ground for some posts on GOC I started to copy some relevant poems. They are long out of copyright and I assumed largely unavailable to any fervent seeker of old Yorkshire poems, songs and verse. I was wrong on that availability assumption because, rather belatedly, I let google and amazon in on the act.
Digital Poetry
Amazon had several works by C.J. including Ballads and Songs of Yorkshire Transcribed From Private Manuscripts, Rare Broadsides, and Scarce Publications; With Notes and a Glossary (Classic Reprint)
Google led me to The Project Gutenberg (see logo above)and an EBook of The Ballads and Songs of Yorkshire, by C. J. Davison Ingledew with all the words and detail on each ballad and song. It saved me all the time and effort of copying selected work as I had intended. In case you find it hard to search here is the contents list and links to all the words.
CONTENTS.
|
Page |
| The Dirge of Offa |
1 |
| Athelgiva |
4 |
| The Battle of Cuton Moore |
18 |
| Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne |
35 |
| The Jolly Pinder of Wakefield |
45 |
| The Noble Fisherman; or, Robin Hood’s Preferment |
48 |
| Robin Hood and the Curtall Fryer of Fountains Abbey |
52 |
| The Bishop of Hereford’s Entertainment by Robin Hood and |
| Little John, in merry Barnsdale |
58 |
| Robin Hood’s Death and Burial |
61 |
| History of Sir John Eland, of Eland, and his Antagonists |
66 |
| The Boy of Egremond |
86 |
| The Deposing of Richard II. and his Murder in Pomfret Castle |
90 |
| The Felon Sew of Rokeby and the Fryers of Richmond |
93 |
| The Rising in the North |
104 |
| Yorke, Yorke for my Monie |
113 |
| The Sisters of Beverley |
119 |
| Mother Shipton |
123 |
| Bold Nevison, the Highwayman |
125 |
| Roseberry Topping |
128 |
| The Cruel Step-Mother; or, the Unhappy Son |
131 |
| The Bonny Scotch Lad, and his Bonnet so Blue |
138 |
| The Child in the Wood; or, the Cruel Unkle |
140 |
| Bowes Tragedy; or, a Pattern of True Love |
145 |
| The Doncaster Volunteers |
152 |
| The Yorkshire Horse-Dealers |
160 |
| Bill Brown, the Poacher |
162 |
| The Romanby Tragedy |
164 |
| Armthorpe Bells |
171 |
| [ix] |
| Paul Jones, the Cumberland Militia, and Scarbrough Volunteers |
184 |
| A New Fox-hunting Song |
187 |
| An Honest Yorkshire-man |
190 |
| Spence Broughton |
191 |
| The Yorkshire Knight; or, the Fortunate Farmer’s Daughter |
193 |
| The Virgin Race; or, Yorkshire’s Glory |
202 |
| The Mayor of Doncaster |
204 |
| The Crafty Plough Boy |
209 |
| The Yorkshire Tragedy; or, a Warning to all Perjur’d Lovers |
211 |
| Dolly Dugging |
217 |
| Scarboro’ Sands |
219 |
| The Sheffield ‘Prentice |
220 |
| The Yorkshire Volunteers’ Farewell to the Good Folks of Stockton |
221 |
| Fragment of the Hagmena Song |
225 |
| The Fair |
226 |
| The Yorkshire Lad in London |
227 |
| The Tryal of Patience |
229 |
| The Beggar’s Bridge |
233 |
| The Banks o’ Morton o’ Swale |
235 |
| The Chase of the Black Fox |
237 |
| Miss Bailey’s Ghost |
241 |
| The Two Yorkshire Lovers |
242 |
| Natterin Nan |
246 |
| The Barber of Thirsk’s Forfeits |
254 |
| The Yorkshire Irishman; or, the Adventures of a Potato Merchant |
255 |
| When at Hame wi’ Dad |
257 |
| I’m Yorkshire too |
258 |
| The Sweeper and Thieves |
259 |
| Howell Wood; or, the Raby Hunt, in Yorkshire |
261 |
| The Collingham Ghost |
269 |
| The Twea Threshers |
273 |
| Dolly’s Gaon; or, the Effects of Pride |
275 |
| The Widow’s Lament |
282 |
| Alice Hawthorn |
286 |
| [x] |
| Tommy Thumb |
288 |
| The Funny Wedding |
289 |
| The Flying Dutchman |
292 |
| The Yorkshireman in London |
294 |
| The Great Exhibition; or, Prince Albert’s Curiosity Shop |
296 |
| The Lord of Saltaire |
298 |
| A Remarkable Circumstance connected with Bretton Hall |
300 |
| The Butcher turned Devil |
304 |
| Song |
306 |
| Colonel Thompson’s Volunteers |
307 |
| The Sledmere Poachers |
308 |
| The Yorkshire Concert |
311 |
| The Soldier in Yorkshire |
313 |
| Aw nivir can call hur my Wife |
315 |
| Glossary |
317 |
There is a wealth of free content on Project Gutenberg and I was a bit awestruck by its scope. I wonder what the original Yorkshire creative folk would think about the digital availability of their work 160+ years on. However to me there is still no substitute for being able to hold a book so I am off for a read.
