Child Ballads in the Hunter Collection
The English and Scottish Popular Ballads compiled and edited by Francis J. Child and published in the last decade of the nineteenth century, is a standard reference for British ballads. Here are listed the versions of these so-called "Child Ballads" found in Max Hunter's collection of Ozark folk song.
You can see and hear these songs by clicking on any of the Hunter Catalog numbers or titles.
Child No. 3 The False Knight Upon the Road
Hunter #422 The Knightman
Child No. 4 Lady Isabel And the Elf Knight
Hunter #47 Lovin' Polly
Hunter #160 Little Billy
Hunter #317 Willie Came Over the Main Wide Ocean
Hunter #398 Pretty Polly
Hunter #826 Pretty Polly
Child No. 7 Earl Brand
Hunter #558 Lady Margret
Child No. 10 The Twa Sisters
Hunter #166 The Miller's Daughter
Hunter #282 The Old Woman Lived on a Seashore
Hunter #361 Two Sisters
Hunter #903 Two Sisters
Child No. 12 Lord Randal
Hunter #572 Lord Randall
Hunter #784 Jimmy Randolph
Hunter #1500 Sweet Angia
Child No. 13 Edward
Hunter #243 Edward
Hunter #253 How Come That Blood on Your Coat Sleeve
Hunter #294 What Is That Blood on Your Coat Sleeve
Hunter #1030 The Two Brothers
Child No. 14 Babylon
Hunter #815 Three Sisters on the Bonnie, Bonnie Banks of th Rye-O
Child No. 18 Sir Lionel
Hunter #288 The Wild Hog
Hunter #1499 Old Bangum
Child No. 20 The Cruel Mother
Hunter #277 Down By the Greenwood Side
Hunter #350 Down By the Greenwood Side
Child No. 26 The Three Ravens
Hunter #461 Three Crows
Child No. 27 The Whummil Bore
Hunter #631 Th Keyhole in th Door
Child No. 46 Captain Wedderburn's Courtship
Hunter #41 Wild Cherry
Hunter #876 I Give My Love a Cherry
Child No. 49 The Twa Brothers
Hunter #334 Two Brothers
Hunter #371 Two Brothers
Hunter #640 Two Little Boys
Hunter #745 Two Little Boys
Hunter #748 Two Little Boys
Child No. 53 Young Beichan
Hunter #744 Lord Batesman
Child No. 68 Young Hunting
Hunter #140 Loving Henry
Hunter #1238 Lou Bonnie
Hunter #1400 Loving Henry
Hunter #1535 Henry Lee
Child No. 73 Lord Thomas and Fair Annet
Hunter #208 The Brown Girl
Hunter #241 The Brown Girl
Hunter #278 Lord Thomas
Hunter #547 The Brown Girl
Hunter #565 The Brown Girl
Hunter #898 Fair Annalee
Child No. 74 Fair Margaret and Sweet William
Hunter #281 Lady Margret
Hunter #575 Lady Margret
Hunter #587 Lady Margret
Hunter #771 Lady Marget
Hunter #1392 Lady Margret
Hunter #1399 Lady Margret
Child No. 75 Lord Lovel
Hunter #896 Lord Lovel
Hunter #901 Lord Lover
Child No. 76 The Lass of Roch Royal
Hunter #131 O, Who Will Shoe Your Pretty Little Foot
Hunter #548 Who Will Shoe My Foot
Hunter #808 Who Will Shoe Your Feet, My Love
Hunter #1384 Who Will Shoe Your Feet
Hunter #1553 Green Valley Waltz
Child No. 79 The Wife of Usher's Well
Hunter #30 The Woman That Lived in the West Countree
Hunter #270 Lady From the North Country
Hunter #585 Lady Gay
Hunter #768 Three Little Babes
Child No. 81 Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard
Hunter #280 Little Matty Groves
Hunter #677 Hark Ye Hear the Lassies Cry
Child No. 84 Barbra Allen
Hunter #148 Barbra Allen
Hunter #492 Barbra Allen
Hunter #586 Barbra Allen
Hunter #688 Barbra Allen
Hunter #740 Barbry Allen
Hunter #796 Barbry Allen
Hunter #833 Barbry Allen
Hunter #835 Barbra Allen
Hunter #1176 Barbra Allen
Child No. 85 Lady Alice
Hunter #247 George Collins
Hunter #1163 The Dying Hobo
Hunter #1397 Jim Gayley
Child No. 93 Lamkin
Hunter #303 False Lamkin
Hunter #507 False Lamkin
Hunter #619 False Lamkins
Child No. 95 The Maid Freed From the Gallows
Hunter #216 The Hangman
Hunter #290 Hangman, Hangman
Hunter #778 Hang Me, O Hang Me
Hunter #1174 Freed From the Gallows
Hunter #1302 Hangman
Hunter #1510 Hangman
Child No. 105 The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington
Hunter #379 The Bailey's Daughter
Child No. 155 Sir Hugh
Hunter #184 The Jews Garden
Hunter #335 Jews Garden
Hunter #751 Rained a Mist
Child No. 156 Queen Eleanor's Confession
Hunter #608 Queen Eleanor's Confession
Child No. 173 Mary Hamilton
Hunter #135 Mary Hamilton
Hunter #583 Four Marys
Hunter #1526 Mary Hamilton
Child No. 181 The Bonny Earl of Murray
Hunter #417 The Bonny Earl of Murray
Child No. 200 The Gypsie Laddie
Hunter #118 Black Jack Davey
Hunter #136 Black Jack Davy
Hunter #423 Gypsy Davy
Hunter #831 Black Jack Davy
Hunter #1000 Gypsy Davy
Hunter #1022 Black Jack Boy
Hunter #1463 Black Jack Davey
Child No. 209 Geordie
Hunter #1023 Georgie
Hunter #1389 Georgie
Hunter #1581 Georgie
Child No. 214 The Braes O Yarrow
Hunter #127 Dewey Dens of Yarrow
Hunter #307 Derry Dems of Arrow
Child No. 215 Fair Willie Drowned in Yarrow
Hunter #584 Fair Willie Drowned in Yarrow
Child No. 243 James Harris
Hunter #146 House Carpenter
Hunter #198 The House Carpenter
Hunter #204 The House Carpenter
Hunter #269 The House Carpenter
Hunter #535 The House Carpenter
Hunter #772 The House Carpenter
Hunter #1523 The House Carpenter
Child No. 250 Henry Martin
Hunter #273 Andrew Batan
Child No. 274 Our Goodman
Hunter #577 Drunken Fool
Hunter #620 Drunken Fool
Hunter #696 When I Come Home the Other Night
Hunter #730 Three Nights Drunk
Hunter #886 Three Nights Drunk
Child No. 277 Wife Wrapt in Wethers Skin
Hunter #169 Dandoo
Hunter #638 Jenny, Fair Jen
Hunter #1475 Dandoo
Child No. 278 The Farmer's Curst Wife
Hunter #437 Devil Doings
Hunter #481 Farmers Curst Wife
Hunter #499 Devils Curst Wife
Hunter #1134 The Ole Man Under the Hill
Hunter #1439 Devil and the Farmers Wife
Hunter #1519 The Devil and the Farmer
Hunter #1541 Ole Devil and the Lady
Child No. 286 The Sweet Trinity
Hunter #61 Turkish Sugarlee
Hunter #393 Turkish Revillie
Hunter #519 Green Willow Tree
Hunter #595 Little Ship
Hunter #747 Golden Willow Tree
Child No. 289 The Mermaid
Hunter #48 Mermaid
Hunter #964 Merrymac on the Sea
Child No. 295 The Brown Girl
Hunter #749 Rich Lady
Hunter #1063 Pretty Sally