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Ballad - Roud Number: V26292

Title: Haltwhistle fair. A new song

First Line: The weather being fine on the fourteenth of May

Themes:  Fairs

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Ballad

Title: Chester fair

First Line: What numbers now to Chester mart repair

Themes:  Fairs

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Date  1868

Ballad

Title: A song on Sunderland fair, the last in Sunderland Oct. 1868

First Line: Let's all away and see the fair

Attributation: By Thomas Browell, author of Jems of Thought

Authors:  Browell, Thomas

Themes:  Fairs

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Notes:  Part of a sheet of two ballads; see Harding B 11(1109).

Series Identifier: 667

Ballad - Roud Number: V16536

Title: Kendal fair

First Line: You servant lads and lasses gay come listen for awhile

Themes:  Fairs

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Ballad

Title: The humours of Wandsworth and Bow fairs, or, the Whitsuntide excursions

First Line: You lads and lasses blithc [sic] and gay

Themes:  Fairs

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Ballad - Roud Number: V4003

Title: The humours of the fair

First Line: 'Twas in the morning of the fair

Themes:  Fairs

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1st Ballad - Roud Number: V12620

Title: Peeping Tom, of Coventry

First Line: Come all you lads and lasses gay

Subjects:  Coventry (England)

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: V29720

Title: Coventry fair

First Line: You sons of Coventry come listen unto me

Subjects:  Coventry (England)

Themes:  Fairs

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Ballad - Roud Number: V15157

Title: The rigs of the fair

First Line: You lads and lasses every where

Themes:  Fairs

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Ballad

Title: Seven Oaks fair. A new song

First Line: Come you pretty lads and lasses

Themes:  Fairs

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Ballad - Roud Number: V3999

Title: The humours of Bow fair

First Line: Bow fair it is now begun

Subjects:  London (England)

Themes:  Fairs

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Ballad - Roud Number: V28121

Title: Glasgow fair

First Line: Twas on the week of Glasgow fair

Themes:  Fairs

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1st Ballad

Title: The Donnybrook jig

First Line: Och 'twas Dermot O'Nolan M'Figg

Themes:  Fairs

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: V15216

Title: Sullivan's wedding

First Line: Since I've only just come from the doctor's

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Ballad - Roud Number: V9440

Title: Newcastle fair

First Line: Come all you brave lasses and listen awhile

Themes:  Fairs

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Ballad

Title: The rigs of Berwick fair. A new song

First Line: Come let us make all preparation

Themes:  Fairs

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Ballad - Roud Number: V4061

Title: The week after the fair or the Discontented pair

First Line: I'm grieved to think my wife Meg, this day we are so poor

Themes:  Fairs

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Ballad

Title: A new song, called The rigs of Glasgow fair

First Line: Will you gang wi' me lassie

Subjects:  Glasgow (Scotland)

Themes:  Fairs

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Ballad

Title: Hexham groser fair

First Line: Lasses prepare your frills and plaits

Subjects:  Hexham (England)

Themes:  Fairs

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Notes:  Part of a sheet of three; see Firth b.34(85)

1st Ballad - Roud Number: V12373

Title: I saw her at the fancy fair

First Line: I saw her at the fancy fair

Themes:  Fairs

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: 13885

Title: The thorn

First Line: From the white blossom'd sloe, my dear Chloe requested

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Ballad - Roud Number: V21745

Title: Let's away to the fair. A favourite song

First Line: One serene pleasant morning upon the highway

Themes:  Fairs

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Date  [1842]

Ballad

Title: Our fancy fair

First Line: Is there -- unless his spirit quail

Themes:  Fairs

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Series Identifier: 9

1st Ballad

Title: The rigs of the feeing fair

First Line: This morning I got early up

Themes:  Fairs

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: V30736

Title: Susy and Pat Murphy

First Line: Och, it's of a rich farmer in Limerick did dwell

Tune: Villikins and his Dinah

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Notes:  See also Firth c.19(148)

Ballad - Roud Number: V9160

Title: The rigs and sprees of the fair

First Line: You lads and lasses blythe and gay

Themes:  Fairs

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Series Identifier: 196

1st Ballad - Roud Number: V5601

Title: Ramble round the fair

First Line: Some gents take delight in a ramble at night

Themes:  Fairs

2nd Ballad - Roud Number: 31

Title: My bonny boy is young but he's growing

First Line: Oh, the trees that grow high, and the leaves that do grow green

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Ballad - Roud Number: V16148

Title: Selby fair, a new song

First Line: Ye lads and lasses, spruce and gay

Themes:  Fairs

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Date  [1735]

Ballad - Roud Number: V9763

Title: The downfall of Bartholomew fair

First Line: O Bartledom fair

Tune: Bartholomew fair

Authors:  Carey, Henry, 1687-1743

Performers:  Este, Thomas, d. 1745

Themes:  Fairs ,  Bartholomew Fair