List of folk songs by Roud number
This is a list of songs by their Roud Folk Song Index number; the full catalogue can also be found on the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library website. Some publishers have added Roud numbers to books and liner notes, as has also been done with Child Ballad numbers and Laws numbers. This list (like the article List of the Child Ballads) also serves as a link to articles about the songs, which may use a very different song title.
The songs are listed in the index by accession number, rather than (for example) by subject matter or in order of importance. Some well-known songs have low Roud numbers (for example, many of the Child Ballads); but others have high ones.
Some of the songs were also included in the collection Jacobite Reliques by Scottish poet and novelist James Hogg.
The Index
The index is a database of nearly 200,000 references to nearly 25,000 songs that have been collected from oral tradition in the English language from all over the world. It is compiled by Steve Roud, a former librarian in the London Borough of Croydon. The English Folk Dance and Song Society (EFDSS) listed 187,800 records in the growing Folksong database as at October 2012 (which total includes all of the songs in the Broadside database that have 'traditional' origins).[1]
The purpose of the index is to give each song a unique identifying number. The numbers were assigned on a more or less arbitrary basis, and are not intended to carry any significance in themselves. However, because of the practicalities of compiling the index (building on previously published sources) it is true as a general rule that older and better-known songs tend to occupy low numbers, while songs which are obscure have higher numbers. Closely related songs are grouped under the same Roud number. If a trusted authority gives the name of a song but not the words it is assigned Roud number 000.
List
201 to 300
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301 to 400
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401 to 500
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501 to 600
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601 to 700
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701 to 800
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801 to 900
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901 to 1000
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1001 to 1100
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1101 to 1200
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1201 to 1300
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1301 to 1400
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1401 to 1500
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1501 to 1600
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1601 to 1700
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1701 to 1800
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1801 to 1900
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1901 to 2000
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2001 to 2100
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2101 to 2200
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2201 to 2300
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2301 to 2400
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2401 to 2500
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2501 to 2600
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2601 to 2700
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2701 to 2800
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2801 to 2900
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2901 to 3000
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3001 to 3100
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3101 to 3200
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3201 to 3300
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3301 to 3400
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3401 to 3500
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3501 to 4000
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4001 to 4100
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4101 to 4200
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4201 to 4300
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4301 to 4400
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4401 to 4500
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4501 to 4600
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4601 to 4700
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4701 to 4800
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4801 to 4900
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4901 to 5000
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5001 to 5100
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5101 to 5200
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5201 to 5300
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5301 to 5400
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5401 to 5500
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5501 to 5600
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5601 to 5700
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5701 to 5800
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5801 to 5900
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5901 to 6000
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6001 to 7000
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7001 to 8000
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8001 to 9000
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9001 to 10,000
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10,001 to 11,000
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11,001 to 12,000
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12,001 to 13,000
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13,001 to 14,000
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14,001 to 15,000
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15,001 to 16,000
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16,001 to 17,000
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17,001 to 18,000
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20,001 and above
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"V" prefix
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See also
- List of the Child Ballads
- List of Irish ballads
- Roud Folk Song Index ("Roud numbers")
- Child Ballads ("Child numbers")
- George Malcolm Laws ("Laws numbers")
References
- library.efdss.org: Search the Roud Folksong Index (English Folk Dance and Song Society)
- Zierke, Reinhard (24 December 2019). "The Cunning Cobbler (Roud 174)". Mainlynorfolk.info. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
- McCann, Elisabeth (7 September 2008). "The cunning cobbler – Mike McCann / Rathole Sheikh". YouTube. Retrieved 5 July 2018.
- Also known as "Hanged I Shall Be", "The Oxford Tragedy", "The Oxford/Wexford Girl", "Ekefield/Ickfield/Wexford Town". "The Butcher Boy" and "The Prentice Boy" Reinhard Zierke (6 October 2013). "Hanged I Shall Be / The Oxford Tragedy / The Oxford/Wexford Girl / Ekefield/Ickfield/Wexford Town / The Butcher Boy / The Prentice Boy". Mainlynorfolk.info. Retrieved 13 December 2013.
- "Betsy Watson (Roud Folksong Index S137595)". Vml.org. Retrieved 5 July 2018.
- Zierke, Reinhard (21 November 2015). "Felton Lonnin / The Kye Have Come Hame". Mainly Norfolk: English Folk and Other Good Music. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
- Zierke, Reinhard (21 November 2015). "Here's the Tender Coming". Mainly Norfolk: English Folk and Other Good Music. Retrieved 30 January 2016.
- "Roud 3504". Vaughan Williams Memorial Library. Retrieved 1 May 2018.
- "Clare County Library: Songs of Clare - the Blarney Stone sung by Tom Lenihan".
External links
- Vaughan Williams Memorial Library Roud Index online searchable database
- mainlynorfolk.info/folk/songs/index.html Extensive list of over 2,000 folk songs with Child, Laws and Roud Index cross-references.