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Oxford Ramble

Speed the Plough

Wassail

Jack-in-the-Green

A Taste of Ale

Six for Gold

Knock at the Knocker, Ring at the Bell

The Robber Bird

Three Quarter Time

The 25th


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Sources

Printed Source

Maud Karpeles (ed.), The Crystal Spring: English Folk Songs collected by Cecil Sharp, OUP, 1975.

Green Bushes

Speed the Plough track 3

Collected in 1922 by Cecil Sharp at Sibford Gower, Oxfordshire, from Joseph Alcock (78).

Watch Video
Green Bushes
Sung by Ian Giles, with Andy Turner on concertina, Holywell Music Room, 3rd May 1993.

 

 

You can hear a solo rendition of the song at A Folk Song A Week