Bluegrass Messengers

No. 12. Lord Randal- Recordings & Info

CONTENTS
1) Alternative Titles
2) Ballad Index
3) Folk Index
4) Child Collection Index
5) Excerpt from The British Traditional Ballad in North America by Tristram Coffin 1950, from the section A Critical Biographical Study of the Traditional Ballads of North America
6) Exceprt from About the Commonest British Ballads by Bertrand H. Bronson
7) Excerpt from Songs from Cumberland & Northumberland by Frank Kidson, Lucy E. Broadwood, A. G. Gilchrist, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Cecil J. Sharp
8) Wiki
9) Mainly Norfolk (lyrics and info)
 
ATTACHED PAGES: (see left hand column)
1) Roud Number 10: Lord Randal (600 Listings)
2) 'Lord Randal' in Kent: Variant Meaning & Context
3) A French 'Lord Randal' in Acadie- Paquin 1980
4) A Contamination in "Lord Randal"- Taylor 1931
5) "Eels Boiled in Broo" or What Killed Lord Randal?
6) 'Lord Randal' in America- Shearin 1919
7) The Randal  Ballad; https://epub.uni-regensburg.de/27346/1/ubr13574_ocr.pdf

Alternative Titles:

Lord Donald,
Lord Ronald (Lord Ronald My Son)
Lord Randal,
Tiranti, My Son
Billy Randal
Lord Rendle
Terence My Son
Sweet William,
Dirandel My Son
Willie Ransom,
Durango,
Lorendo,
Tyranty My Son,
Johnny Randolph,
Sweet Nelson,
Uriar My Son,
Jo Reynard My Son,
(King) Henry My Son,
Willie Doo,
The Croodlin Doo, or, The Croodin Doo.
Bonnie Wee Croodlin Doo
My Bonnie Wee Cruidland Dou
Tiranti, My Love
Henry, My Son
Oh Mak' My Bed Easy
Mother, Make My Bed Soon
John Willow, My Son
Johnny Rillus
Johnny Rilla
La Garcon Empoisonne
A Rope and Gallows
Dear Willie
Fair Nelson My Son
 Jimmie Randall (Randolph, etc.),
John Elzie,
Johnny Randall (Rilla, Reeler, Ramsay, Riller, Reynolds, Ramble, Rillus, Randolph, etc.),
Johnnie Randolph My Son,
Lord Lantoun,
McDonald, 
Poor Anzo,
Randall (Ransel, etc.) My Son,
Sweet William,
Terence,
The Cup of Cold Poison,
Three Cups of Cold Poison, The Jealous Lover,
The Poisoned Child,
Tyranty (many spellings),
Uriar My Son,
Where Have You Been to My Dear Son?
Wooing and Death of John Randal
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Ballad Index: Lord Randal [Child 12]

DESCRIPTION: (Lord Randall) comes home; his mother questions him about his day. He answers each question accurately but incompletely, concluding with a request to rest. At last he reveals that his sweetheart has poisoned him.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1787
KEYWORDS: murder lover farewell lastwill food poison
FOUND IN: Britain(England,Scotland(All)) US(All) Ireland Canada(Mar,Que)
REFERENCES (54 citations):
Child 12, "Lord Randal" (21 texts, 2 tunes) {Bronson's #31, #33}
Bronson 12, "Lord Randal" (103 versions plus 9 in addenda)
GlenbuchatBallads, p. 88, "Shouly Linkum Old Fragment" (1 short text)
Greig #112, pp. 1-2, "Lord Ronald" (1 text)
GreigDuncan2 209, "Lord Ronald" (10 texts, 8 tunes) {A=Bronson's #85, B=#29, C=#34, E=#40, H=#43}
Lyle-Crawfurd2 162, "My Bonnie Wee Cruidland Dou" (1 text)
BarryEckstormSmyth pp. 46-72, "Lord Randall" (12 texts plus 3 fragments and 2 quotations from non-Maine sources, 6 tunes plus 1 unrelated item; the "N" text is a rewrite which ends with Randall's accidental death) {Bronson's #42, #37, #16, #72, #23, [], #11; Bronson's #70 is a tune for text "J," which is printed without a melody}
Flanders/Olney, pp. 37-39, "Jimmie Rendal"; pp. 200-201, "Lord Randall" (2 texts)
Flanders/Brown, pp. 197-198, "Mother, Make My Bed Soon" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #30}
Flanders-Ancient1, pp. 175-207, "Lord Randall" (13 texts plus 6 fragments, 12 tunes) {H=Bronson's #30}
Linscott, pp. 191-193, "Dirante, My Son or Lord Randall" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #12}
Davis-Ballads 6, "Lord Randal" (15 texts [two of them in an appendix] plus a fragment; 4 tunes entitled "John Willow, My Son," "Johnny Rillus," Johnny Rilla," "Lord Randal"; 2 more versions mentioned in Appendix A) {Bronson's #64, #28, (F version not reproduced), #58}
Belden, pp. 24-28, "Lord Randall" (5 texts, 1 tune) {Bronson's #41}
Randolph 5, "Johnny Randolph" (4 texts, 3 tunes) {A=Bronson's #21, B=#26, D=#96}
Eddy 5, "Lord Randal" (4 texts, 3 tunes) {Bronson's #73, #95, #94}
Gardner/Chickering 3, "The Cup of Cold Poison" (1 text)
Peters, p. 195, "Dirandel" (1 text, 1 tune)
Brewster 7, "Lord Randall" (1 text)
Davis-More 7, pp. 51-60, "Lord Randal" (5 texts plus an excerpt, 3 tunes)
BrownII 6, "Lord Randall" (3 texts)
Chappell-FSRA 4, "Lorendo" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #8}
Hudson 4, pp. 69-70, "Lord Randall" (2 texts)
Boswell/Wolfe 6, pp. 13-15, "Lord Randall" (1 text plus an excerpt from another, 1 tune)
Scarborough-SongCatcher, pp. 178-180, "Lord Randall" (1 text, with local title "Randal, My Son")
Creighton/Senior, pp. 9-11, "Lord Randal" (2 texts plus 1 fragment, 2 tunes) {Bronson's #48, #86}
Leach, pp. 81-85, "Lord Randal" (4 texts)
OBB 66, "Lord Randal" (1 text)
Friedman, p. 178, "Lord Randall" (3 texts)
Warner 107, "Lord Randall"; 108, "Jimmy Ransome" (2 texts, 1 tune)
SharpAp 7 "Lord Randal" (13 texts, 13 tunes) {Bronson's #13, #14, #17, #74, #3, #56, #47, #53, #54, #49, #63, #68, #62}
Sharp-100E 18, "Lord Rendal" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #90}
Niles 9, "Lord Randall" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
Gummere, pp. 168+336-337, "Lord Randal" (1 text)
Sharp/Karpeles-80E 7, "John Randolph (Lord Randal)" (1 text, 1 tune -- an expanded composite version) {Bronson's #53}
Ritchie-Southern, pp. 50-51, "Lord Randal" (1 text, 1 tune)
Scott-BoA, pp. 23-24, "Lord Ronald" (1 text, 1 tune)
Hodgart, p. 34, "Lord Randal" (1 text)
JHCox 4, "Lord Randall" (6 texts plus mention of 6 more)
JHCoxIIA, #3, pp. 14-15, "The Jealous Lover" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #38}
Ord, pp. 458-459, "Lord Randal" (1 text)
LPound-ABS, 1, p. 3, "Johnny Randall"; p. 4, "Jimmy Randolph" (2 texts)
MacSeegTrav 4, "Lord Randall" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
Opie-Oxford2 44, "Where have you been today, Billy, my son" (3 texts)
Baring-Gould-MotherGoose #287, pp. 167-168, "(Where have you been today, Billy, my son)"
Montgomerie-ScottishNR 199, "The Wee Croodin Doo" (1 text)
TBB 11, "Lord Randal" (1 text)
SHenry H814, p. 415, "Lord Ronald" (1 text, 1 tune, incorrectly labelled "Child 92")
Darling-NAS, pp. 43-44, "Lord Randall"; "Johnny Randall" (2 texts)
Silber-FSWB, p. 346, "Lord Randall" (1 text)
DT 12, LORDRAN1* LORDRNLD* EELHENRY* EELHENR2
ADDITIONAL: James Kinsley, editor, Burns: Complete Poems and Songs (shorter edition, Oxford, 1969) #352, p. 485, "Lord Ronald, my son--" (1 short text, 1 tune, from 1792)
Robert Chambers, The Popular Rhymes of Scotland (Edinburgh, 1870 ("Digitized by Google")), pp. 51-53, "The Croodin Doo" (1 tune)
Frank Harte _Songs of Dublin_, second edition, Ossian, 1993, pp. 30-31, "Henry, My Son" (1 text, 1 tune)
Katherine Briggs, _A Dictionary of British Folk-Tales in the English Language_, Part A: Folk Narratives, 1970 (I use the 1971 Routledge paperback that combines volumes A.1 and A.2), volume A.2, p. 396, "The Croodin Doo" (1 text)
Roud #10
RECORDINGS:
Grace Carr, "Henry, My Son" (on Saskatch01)
Sara Cleveland, "My Bonny Bon Boy" (on SCleveland01)
Mary Delaney, "Buried in Kilkenny" (on Voice17)
Em & Doreen Elliott, "Henry, My Son" (on Elliotts01)
Pete Elliott, "Henry, My Son" (on Elliotts01)
Ewan MacColl, "Lord Randal" (on ESFB1, ESFB2)
John MacDonald, "Lord Ronald" (on Voice03)
Lawrence Older, "Johnny Randall" (on LOlder01)
Paddy Reilly, "Buried in Kilkenny" (on IRTravellers01)
Jean Ritchie, "Lord Randall" (on JRitchie02)
Jeannie Robertson, Elizabeth Cronin, Thomas Moran, Colm McDonough, Eirlys & Eddis Thomas [composite] "Lord Randal" (on FSB4, FSBBAL1) {cf. Bronson's #43.2 in addenda}
Pete Seeger, "Lord Randall" (on PeteSeeger25)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Billy Boy"
ALTERNATE TITLES:
Jimmy Randolph
Jimmy Randal
Bonnie Wee Croodlin Doo
Tiranti, My Love
Henry, My Son
Willie Ransom
Oh Mak' My Bed Easy
NOTES: A few versions, such as that recorded by Lawrence Older, make Randall's wife, rather than his sweetheart, his murderer. Wonder if she found out about that other girl he was fooling around with. - RBW
And in Grace Carr's version, it's his father who poisons him. It's worth noting that the title "Henry, My Son" almost inevitably denotes a parody version. - PJS
Chambers, referring to "The Croodin Doo": "the same as a ballad called Grandmother Addercook, which is popular in Germany." - BS
I've seen several sources (notably Davis) mention that John Randolph of Virginia knew the song which sometimes bears his name. The text Randolph cited appears, however, to have been "Wheel of Fortune" or something similar.
Barry et al claim "It is reasonably safe to assert that, of all the English ballads, 'Lord Randall' holds in the United States the leading position, as regards the extent of purely traditional currency. 'Barbara Allen' and 'Lord Thomas' are, no doubt, known to more folk-singers, yet it cannot be said that their popularity is due solely to tradition, since both have been many times reprinted in pocket songsters. On the other hand, we know of no American broadside or songster text of 'Lord Randall.'" - RBW
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Keefer's Folk Index:Lord Randall/Randal [Ch 12/Sh 7/Me I-A 3]

Rt - Henry My Son ; Willie My Son ; Wee Croodin' Doo ; Garcon Empoisonne (Poisoned Boy) ; Polish Maiden ; Croodin Doo
At - Johnny Reeler ; Ramsel My Son ; Durango ; Tyranty
Rm - Last Leaves
Pound, Louise (ed.) / American Ballads and Songs, Scribner, Sof (1972/1922), p 3/# 1A [1901] (Johnny/John/Johnnie Randall/Randolph)
Seeger, Ruth Crawford (eds.) / American Folk Songs for Children, Doubleday/Zephyr Books, Sof (1948), p140 (What Did You Have for Your Supper?)
Scott, John Anthony (ed.) / Ballad of America, Grosset & Dunlap, Bk (1967), p 23 (Lord Ronald (my Son))
Friedman, Albert B. (ed.) / Viking Book of Folk Ballads of the English-S, Viking, sof (1963/1957), p178 [1800s]
Friedman, Albert B. (ed.) / Viking Book of Folk Ballads of the English-S, Viking, sof (1963/1957), p179 [1930s]
Lynn, Frank (ed.) / Songs for Swingin' Housemothers, Fearon, Sof (1963/1961), p220
Leisy, James F. (ed.) / Hootenanny Tonight!, Gold Medal Books, sof (1964), p 31
Wells, Evelyn Kendrick (ed.) / The Ballad Tree, Ronald, Bk (1950), p101
Buchan, Norman (ed.) / 101 Scottish Songs, Collins, poc (1962), p131 (Lord Donald)
Luboff, Norman; and Win Stracke (eds.) / Songs of Man, Prentice-Hall, Bk (1966), p 84 (Lord Rendal)
Shelton, Robert (ed.) / Josh White Song Book, Quadrangle, Sof (1963), p138
Leisy, James F. (ed.) / Folk Song Abecedary, Bonanza, Bk (1966), p221
Johnson, James & Robert Burns (eds) / Scots Musical Museum, Amadeus, Bk (1991/1853), #327 [1792] (Lord Ronald (my Son))
Leach, MacEdward / The Ballad Book, Harper & Row, Bk (1955), p 81 [1800ca]
Leach, MacEdward / The Ballad Book, Harper & Row, Bk (1955), p 82 [1827]
Leach, MacEdward / The Ballad Book, Harper & Row, Bk (1955), p 83 [1800ca]
Leach, MacEdward / The Ballad Book, Harper & Row, Bk (1955), p 84 [1903/07]
Leach, MacEdward / The Heritage Book of Ballads, Heritage, Bk (1967), p 3
Aaron, Tossi. Tossi Sings Folk Songs and Ballads, Prestige International INT 13027, LP (196?), trk# A.04 (Johnny/John/Johnnie Randall/Randolph)
Beers Family. Walkie in the Parlor, Folkways FA 2376, LP (1960), trk# 12
Belafonte, Harry. Mark Twain and Other Folk Favorites, RCA (Victor) LPM 1022, LP (1954), trk# B.06
Boone, Sina. Sharp & Karpeles / English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians, I, Oxford, Bk (1932/1917), p 44/# 7J [1918/09/28]
Campbell, Ella. Sharp & Karpeles / English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians, I, Oxford, Bk (1932/1917), p 44/# 7K [1918/05/01]
Carthy, Martin. Because It's There, Rounder 3031, LP (1979), trk# A.04
Chisholm, Emma. Sharp & Karpeles / English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians, I, Oxford, Bk (1932/1917), p 45/# 7L [1918/05/21]
Clayton, R. H.. Randolph, Vance / Ozark Folksongs. Volume I, British Ballads and Songs, Univ. of Missouri, Bk (1980/1946), p 65/# 5C [1928/11/14] (Johnny/John/Johnnie Randal
Cook, Judy. Far from the Lowlands, Cook CEI-JC02-0005, CD (2000), trk# 12
Copley, Anna (Luther). Cox, John Harrington (ed.) / Folk-Songs of the South, Dover, Sof (1967/1925), p 27/# 4F [1916/01/28]
Cronin, Elizabeth. Folk Songs of Britain, Vol 4. The Child Ballads, I, Caedmon TC 1145, LP (1961), trk# A.05b [1950s]
Dawson, Mrs. W. F.. Moore, Ethel & Chauncey (ed.) / Ballads and Folk Songs of the Southwest, Univ. of Okla, Bk (1964), p 23/# 7B [1940s] (Jimmy Random, My Son)
Deutsch, Leonhard. Morris, Alton C. / Folksongs of Florida, Univ. Florida, Bk (1950), p247/#148 [1934-39] (Poisoned Child)
Dunagan, Margaret. Sharp & Karpeles / English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians, I, Oxford, Bk (1932/1917), p 42/# 7F [1917/09/09]
Dyer-Bennet, Richard. Richard Dyer-Bennet No. 5. Requests, Dyer-Bennet 5000, LP (1958), trk# A.04 (Lord Rendal)
Dyer-Bennet, Richard. Folk Songs, Remington RLP-199-34, LP (1951), trk# A.01
Hayes, Lisbeth. Randolph, Vance / Ozark Folksongs. Volume I, British Ballads and Songs, Univ. of Missouri, Bk (1980/1946), p 64/# 5A [1920/01/12] (Johnny/John/Johnnie Randa
Heath, Gordan; and Lee Payant. Folksongs and Footnotes, Abbaye 1, LP (1956), trk# A.05
Heekin, Mary. Art of Field Recording, Vol. 1, Dust to Digital DTD 08, CD( (2007), trk# 1.24 [1962/04/14] (Lord Randolph)
Henigan, Julie. American Stranger, Waterbug WBG 0035, CD (1997), trk# 3 (Johnny/John/Johnnie Randall/Randolph)
Hensley, Emma. Sharp & Karpeles / English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians, I, Oxford, Bk (1932/1917), p 39/# 7C [1916/08/28]
Holcolm, Solomon and Beth. Niles, John Jacob / Ballad Book of John Jacob Niles, Bramhall House, Bk (1961), p 59/N 9A [1932/07] (Jimmy Randal/Randall, My Son)
Hubbard, Salley A.. Hubbard, Lester A. / Ballads and Songs from Utah, Univ. of Utah, Bk (1961), p 6/# 3A [1947/02/07] (Lord Ransom)
Ives, Burl. Return of the Wayfaring Stranger, Columbia CL 1459, LP (1960), trk# B.04
Ives, Burl. Ives, Burl / Burl Ives Song Book, Ballantine Books, Bk (1953), p 60
Jepson, James. Hubbard, Lester A. / Ballads and Songs from Utah, Univ. of Utah, Bk (1961), p 6/# 3B [1947/07/11] (Lord Nelson)
Keith, Ada. Cox, John Harrington (ed.) / Folk-Songs of the South, Dover, Sof (1967/1925), p 25/# 4C [1915/12/14]
Kelley, Ada F.. Linscott, Eloise Hubbard (ed.) / Folk Songs of Old New England, Dover, Bk (1993/1939), p191 [1920-30s] (Dirante, My Son)
Langstaff, John. Seeds of Love, Minstrel JD 208, LP (1987), trk# B.03 (Lord Rendal)
Langstaff, John. Water Is Wide. American and British Ballads and Folksongs, Revels 2202, CD (2002), trk# 7 [1959] (Lord Rendal)
Lewis, William. Randolph, Vance / Ozark Folksongs. Volume I, British Ballads and Songs, Univ. of Missouri, Bk (1980/1946), p 64/# 5B [1927/10/04] (Johnny/John/Johnnie Rand
Lorette, Paul. Flanders, Helen H. & George Brown / Vermont Folk Songs and Ballads, Folklore Associates, Bk (1968/1931), p197 [1930/09/14] (Mother Make My Bed Soon)
Maddox, Ada. Sharp, Cecil & Maude Karpeles (eds.) / Eighty English Folk Songs from th, MIT Press, Sof (1968), p 27 [1917ca] (Johnny/John/Johnnie Randall/Randolph)
Maddox, Ada. Sharp & Karpeles / English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians, I, Oxford, Bk (1932/1917), p 43/# 7H [1918/04/30]
Maples, Mrs.. Sharp & Karpeles / English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians, I, Oxford, Bk (1932/1917), p 43/# 7G [1917/04/17]
McCurdy, Ed. O Love Is Teasin', Elektra 60402-1-U, LP (1957), trk# 1.07
McDonald, Colm. Folk Songs of Britain, Vol 4. The Child Ballads, I, Caedmon TC 1145, LP (1961), trk# A.05d [1950s]
McFarland, Mary Ann. Moore, Ethel & Chauncey (ed.) / Ballads and Folk Songs of the Southwest, Univ. of Okla, Bk (1964), p 22/# 7A [1940s] (My Ramboling Son)
McKinney, Florence. Sharp & Karpeles / English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians, I, Oxford, Bk (1932/1917), p 41/# 7E [1910/06/02]
McKinney, Polly (F.). Cox, John Harrington (ed.) / Folk-Songs of the South, Dover, Sof (1967/1925), p 23/# 4A [1916/02/02]
Miller, Harrison. Cox, John Harrington (ed.) / Folk-Songs of the South, Dover, Sof (1967/1925), p 24/# 4B [1916/01/24] (Johnny/John/Johnnie Randall/Randolph)
Mitchell, Howie. Howie Mitchell, Folk Legacy FSI 005, LP (1962), trk# B.07
Moran, Thomas. Folk Songs of Britain, Vol 4. The Child Ballads, I, Caedmon TC 1145, LP (1961), trk# A.05c [1950s]
O'Hara, Mary. Mary O'Hara's Scotland, Tradition 2121, LP (197?), trk# B.07
Older, Lawrence. Adirondack Songs, Ballads and Fiddle Tunes, Folk Legacy FSA 015, Cas (1964), trk# B.02 (Johnny/John/Johnnie Randall/Randolph)
Paugh, Mrs. S. R.. Cox, John Harrington (ed.) / Folk-Songs of the South, Dover, Sof (1967/1925), p 25/# 4D [1916/01/10] (Johnny/John/Johnnie Randall/Randolph)
Pitt, Everett. Up Agin the Mountain, Marimac 9200, Cas (1987/1944), trk# 7 [1946/01/06] (Jimmy Randal/Randall, My Son)
Potter, Granny. Scarborough, Dorothy(ed.) / A Song Catcher in the Southern Mountains, AMS, Bk (1966/1937), p179 [1930] (Randal, My Son)
Proffitt, Frank. Frank Proffitt of Reese, North Carolina, Folk Legacy FSA 001, Cas (1962), trk# A.05
Richards, Frances (Mrs.). Sharp & Karpeles / English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians, I, Oxford, Bk (1932/1917), p 45/# 7M [1918/08/18]
Ritchie, Jean. British Traditional Ballads in the Southern Mountains (Vol. 2), Folkways FA 2302, LP (1961), trk# B.04
Robertson, Jeannie. Folk Songs of Britain, Vol 4. The Child Ballads, I, Caedmon TC 1145, LP (1961), trk# A.05a [1950s]
Rose, Tony. On Banks of Green Willow, Leader/Trailer LER-2 101, LP (1976), trk# 8
Sainte-Marie, Buffy. Fire and Fleet and Candlelight, Vanguard VSD7 9250, LP (1967), trk# B.02
Sands, Mary. Sharp & Karpeles / English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians, I, Oxford, Bk (1932/1917), p 38/# 7B [1916/08/03]
Seeger, Pete; and Frank Hamilton. Nonesuch and Other Folk Tunes, Folkways FA 2439, LP (1959), trk# B.02
Seeger, Peggy and Mike. American Folk Songs for Children, Rounder 8001/8002/8003, CD( (1977), trk# 2-16 (What Did You Have for Your Supper?)
Seeger, Pete. Children's Concert at Town Hall, Columbia CL 1947, LP (1963), trk# 2a
Shapiro, Gertrude. Cox, John Harrington (ed.) / Folk-Songs of the South, Dover, Sof (1967/1925), p 26/# 4E [1916/01/28]
Shelton, Dora. Pound, Louise (ed.) / American Ballads and Songs, Scribner, Sof (1972/1922), p 4/# 1B [1916] (Jimmy Randal/Randall, My Son)
Shelton, Dora. Sharp & Karpeles / English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians, I, Oxford, Bk (1932/1917), p 38/# 7A [1916/08/02]
Short, Lillian. Randolph, Vance / Ozark Folksongs. Volume I, British Ballads and Songs, Univ. of Missouri, Bk (1980/1946), p 66/# 5D [1941/04/25] (Johnny/John/Johnnie Randa
Song Spinners. Johnson, Margaret & Travis (eds) / Early American Songs from ... the Spi, AMP, Fol (1943), #29
Spinners. Folk at the Phil!, Fontana STL 5219, LP (1964), trk# B.04
Staton, Thomas J.. Wolfe, Charles K.(ed.) / Folk Songs of Middle Tennessee. George Boswell, Univ. Tennesse, Sof (1997), p 13/# 6 [1949]
Thomas, Eirlys and Edis. Folk Songs of Britain, Vol 4. The Child Ballads, I, Caedmon TC 1145, LP (1961), trk# A.05e [1950s]
Wells, William F.. Sharp & Karpeles / English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians, I, Oxford, Bk (1932/1917), p 40/# 7D [1916/08/09]
West, Harry and Jeanie. Raim, Ethel and Josh Duncan (eds.) / Grass Roots Harmony, Oak, Sof (1968), p56 (Jimmy Randal/Randall, My Son)
Wheeler, Laurel. Sharp & Karpeles / English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians, I, Oxford, Bk (1932/1917), p 43/# 7I [1918/05/02]
White, Josh. Josh White, Decca DL 8665, LP (1958/1945), trk# A.05 (Lord Randall, My Son)

-------------Henry My Son [Ch 12]

Rt - Lord Randall/Randal
Pb - Randall, My Son (Parody)
Breskin, Flip; and Zeke Hoskins. Lizard that Ate Vancouver, Hoskin, CD (2003), trk# 5 (Green and Yellow/Yeller)
Bricknell, Alison. English Folk Music Anthology, Folkways FE 38553, LP (1981), trk# 1.08 [1974-1980]
Cook, Judy. Far from the Lowlands, Cook CEI-JC02-0005, CD (2000), trk# 14 (Green and Yellow/Yeller)
Gould, Ron. Sing Out Reprints, Sing Out, Sof, 7, p39 (1965)
Holden, Mrs.. Hamer, Fred (ed.) / Garners Gay. English Folk Songs Collected by ..., EFDS, Sof (1967), p76 [1940s?]
Lynch, Bob. From the Land of Carolan, CBS 84268, LP (1980), trk# A.02
Seeger, Pete. Children's Concert at Town Hall, Columbia CL 1947, LP (1963), trk# 2b
Stracke, Win. Luboff, Norman; and Win Stracke (eds.) / Songs of Man, Prentice-Hall, Bk (1966), p 90 (Speckled Fish)

--------------Willie My Son [Ch 12]

Rt - Lord Randall/Randal
Caldwell, Nell. Cox, John Harrington(ed.) / Traditional Ballads Mainly from West Virgini, WPA, Bk (1939), 3 [1928ca] (Jealous Lover)
Marks, Phyllis. Folksongs and Ballads, Vol 2. Phyllis Marks, Augusta Heritage AHR 008, Cas (1991), trk# 2.09

--------------Wee Croodin' Doo [Ch 12]

Rt - Lord Randall/Randal
Friedman, Albert B. (ed.) / Viking Book of Folk Ballads of the English-S, Viking, sof (1963/1957), p180 [1827ca] (Croodlin' Dow)
Wells, Evelyn Kendrick (ed.) / The Ballad Tree, Ronald, Bk (1950), p166 (Croodin Doo)
Luboff, Norman; and Win Stracke (eds.) / Songs of Man, Prentice-Hall, Bk (1966), p 86 (Little Wee Croodin Doo)
Leach, MacEdward / The Heritage Book of Ballads, Heritage, Bk (1967), p 5 (Croodin Doo)
Bright, Judy. This Is Judy Bright, Dot DLP 3575, LP (1965ca), trk# B.06
Ives, Burl. Ballads, United Artists UAL 3060, LP (1959), trk# A.05 (Croodin Doo)
Langstaff, John. Water Is Wide. American and British Ballads and Folksongs, Revels 2202, CD (2002), trk# 9 [1959] (Croodin Doo)
Lea, Terrea. Terrea Lea and Her Singing Guitar, ABC Paramount ABC 161, LP (196?), trk# B.05 (Little Wee Croodin Doo)
Paton, Sandy. Many Sides of Sandy Paton, Elektra EKL 148, LP (1959), trk# A.08
Redpath, Jean. Music of Scotland, National Geographic 707, LP (1974), trk# B.04

--------------La Garcon Empoisonne (Poisoned Boy) [Ch 12]

Rt - Lord Randall/Randal
Wright, John; and Catherine Perrier. John Wright and Catherine Perrier, Green Linnet SIF 1011, LP (1978), trk# A.05

--------------Polish Maiden [Ch 12]

Rt - Lord Randall/Randal
At - Na Podolu Bialy Kamien
Shekerjian, Haig and Regina (eds.) / Book of Ballads, Songs and Snatches, Harper, sof (1966), p 14

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CHILD BALLAD COLLECTION INDEX>

(Pop's) Johnny Connors Henry My Son Jim Carroll & Pat Mackenzie Collection 
 
Abner Jay Lord Randall Folk Song Stylist 2010 4:23 Yes

Alasdair Roberts Lord Ronald No Earthly Man 2005 7:53 Yes
Alasdair Roberts Lord Ronald Ayrtime.org E.P. 2010 5:45 Yes
Alasdair Roberts Lord Ronald Zeldzaam Dwars 05-03-02 2005 6:13 Yes

Alex Campbell Henry My Son Live and Studio 1979  No

012 Alex Robb My Boy Tommie The James Madison Carpenter Collection 1927-1955  No

012 Alfred Deller Lord Rendall The Three Ravens - Elizabethan Folk and Minstrels Songs 2003 5:41 Yes
012 Alfred Deller Lord Rendall The Wraggle Taggle Gypsies - Folk Songs & Ballads of Elizabethan England 1996 5:37 Yes
012 Alfred Deller Lord Rendall Portrait of a Legend 2004 4:03 Yes
012 Alfred Deller, Mark Deller & Desmond Dupré Lord Randall Folksongs 1972 4:04 Yes 

Alison Bricknell Henry My Son An English Folk Music Anthology 1981 1:53 Yes

Almeda Riddle Lord Randall The John Quincy Wolf Folklore Collection - Ozark Folksongs  4:58 Yes

Alonzo Lewis Lord Nelson My Son The Helen Hartness Flanders Collection  No

Amos Eaton Billy Boy (1) The Helen Hartness Flanders Collection  No
Amos Eaton Billy Boy (2) The Helen Hartness Flanders Collection  No

Andreas Scholl Lord Rendall English Folksongs & Lute Songs 1996 5:37 Yes
Andreas Scholl Lord Randall The Essential Andreas Scholl 2006  No

012 Andrew King The Wild Wild Berry The Amfortas Wound 2004 5:09 Yes
012 Andrew King Henry My Son The Harbinger of the Decaying Mind 2004 2:08 Yes
012 Andrew Rowan Summers Billy Boy The Faulse Lady 1954
 No
012 Andrew Thomas My Boy Billy (1) BBC Recordings
 
 No
012 Andrew Thomas My Boy Billy (2) BBC Recordings
 
 No
012 Andy Cash Henry My Son Jim Carroll & Pat Mackenzie Collection
 
 No
012 Anne Price John Randolph A Few More Miles to Go 2009
 No
012 Anni & Jim Mageean & Johnny Collins Billy Boy Strontrace! - Recorded Live in Friesland 1983 3:36 Yes
012 Applecraft Lord Randal The Shining City on the Hill 2000
 No
012 Artus Moser Lord Randall North Carolina Ballads 1955 2:40 Yes
012 Aubrey Murphy Billy Boy The Helen Creighton Collection
 
 No
012 Aunt Molly Jackson Billy Boy The Mary Elizabeth Barnicle-Tillman Cadle Collection
 
 No
012 Aunt Molly Jackson Johnny Randal The Library of Congress
 
 No
012 Aunt Molly Jackson Johnny Randall The Mary Elizabeth Barnicle-Tillman Cadle Collection
 
 No
012 Barbara & Tom Brown Oh Where Are You Going to My Boy Billy Boy? Bob & Jacqueline Patten Collection 1970-1999
 No
012 Barbara Bell Billy Boy The Library of Congress
 
 No
012 Bascom Lamar Lunsford Billy Boy (1) The Library of Congress
 
 No
012 Bascom Lamar Lunsford Billy Boy (2) The Library of Congress
 
 No
012 Battlefield Band Lord Randall Out for the Night 2004 5:08 Yes
012 Beulah Greer Billy Boy (1) Ben Gray Lumpkin Digital Folk Music Collection 1950-1970 :26 Yes
012 Beulah Greer Billy Boy (2) Ben Gray Lumpkin Digital Folk Music Collection 1950-1970 :40 Yes
012 Beatrice Nidleman Billy Boy (1) The Library of Congress
 
 No
012 Beatrice Nidleman Billy Boy (2) The Library of Congress
 
 No
012 Bell Duncan Lord Randal The James Madison Carpenter Collection 1927-1955
 No
012 Ben Henneberry Lord Randal (1) The Helen Creighton Collection
 
 No
012 Ben Henneberry Lord Randal (2) The Helen Creighton Collection
 
 No
012 Bessie Helen & Freddie C. Hunter Billy Boy Southern Mosaic - The John & Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip 1939 2:08 Yes
012 Betsy Miller & Ewan MacColl Lord Randal A Garland of Scots Folksong 1960
 No
012 Beulah Herrick Lord Randall The John Donald Robb Field Recordings 1944-1979
 1:00 Yes
012 Billy Conroy Billy Boy Canny Newcassel - Ballads and Songs from Newcastle and Thereabouts 1972 :49 Yes
012 Bob Davenport Billy Boy Blow the Man Down - A Collection of Sea Songs & Shanties 1993
 No
012 Bob Davenport Billy Boy Farewell Nancy - Sea Songs and Shanties 1964 1:28 Yes
012 Bob Lynch Henry My Son From the Land of Carolan 1980
 No
012 Bobby Lowe Lord Randal The Helen Creighton Collection
 
 No
012 Bradley Kincaid Billy Boy Old-Time Songs & Hymns - Vol 1 & 2 1974 1:42 Yes
012 Bram Taylor Lord Randal Voices - English Traditional Songs 1992 4:00 Yes
012 Brian Peters Lord Randal Songs of Trial and Triumph 2008 4:46 Yes
012 Buffy Sainte-Marie Lord Randall Fire & Fleet & Candlelight 1999 3:29 Yes
012 Burl Ives Billy Boy The Spoken Arts Treasury of American Ballads and Folk Songs 1970 1:52 Yes
012 Burl Ives Billy Boy Folk Songs 2005 2:51 Yes
012 Burl Ives Billy Boy American Folk Anthology 2008
 No
012 Burl Ives Lord Randall Return of the Wayfaring Stranger 2000
 No
012 Burl Ives Lord Randall Troubador - Original 1941-1950 Recordings 2004 3:16 Yes
012 Burl Ives Lord Randall Wayfaring Stranger 1960 3:09 Yes
012 Burl Ives Lord Randall's Son Philco's Friendly Troubadour - 20 Vintage Radio Broadcasts 1946-47 2004
 No
012 Burl Ives Lord Randall Hits & Highlights - Vol. 1 2006
 No
012 Burl Ives Wee Croodin Doo Ballads with Guitar 1959
 No
012 Cadgwith Cove Fishermen My Boy Billy BBC Recordings
 
 No
012 Capt. William T. Day Billy Boy The Library of Congress
 
 No
012 Cara Poisoned Peas In Full Swing - Live 2008 4:09 Yes
012 Carl Peterson Lord Rendal Drifting with Michener 2006
 No
012 Carl Peterson & The Drambeauties Lord Randal Playing Nice Together 2007
 No
012 Carolyne Hughes Billy Boy Blackdog & Sheepcrook 1975
 No
012 Carrie Hughes Henry, My Son Blackdog & Sheepcrook 1975
 No
012 Carrie Warren + Elizabeth Cronin + James Laurensen + Andrew Thomas Henry, My Son + Lord Randall + Lord Ronald + Billy Boy The Elfin Knight - The Classic Ballads 1 1976
 No
012 Charles Byrd & Richard Levitt Lord Rendall Guitar Music and Songs of Merrie Olde England
 
 No
012 Celia Feldberg Johnny Randal The Library of Congress
 
 No
012 Celia Feldberg Johnny Randal, My Son (1) The Library of Congress
 
 No
012 Celia Feldberg Johnny Randal, My Son (2) The Library of Congress
 
 No
012 Celtish Billy Boy Imago 2003 5:20 Yes
012 Charles Jordan & Joyce Sullivan Hennery, My Son Canadian Folk Songs - Chansons Folkloriques du Canada [Canadian Folk Songs: a Centennial Collection] 1967
 No
012 Charles Menteith Green and Yeller The Gwilym Davies Collection
 
 No
012 Charles Thomas Billy Boy The Max Hunter Folk Song Collection
 1:01 Yes
012 Christina Stewart My Bonnie Tammy The Travelling Stewarts 1968
 No
012 Cici Porter Billy Boy There Was an Old Woman Who Swallowed a Fly - and Other Tasty Treats 2007 2:19 Yes
012 Cilla & Artie Trezise & the Caper Ceilidh Band Where Have You Been A' the Day The Singing Kettle - Scots Sing-Along Songs for Children 1982 2:22 Yes
012 Clan Na Gael Henry My Son B-a-a-a-d to the Bone 1997 1:33 Yes
012 Clara Sanabras & William Carter Lord Rendal The New Irish Girl and Other Folk Songs and Ballads to the Lute 2002 3:36 Yes
012 Clarice Garland Billy Boy The Mary Elizabeth Barnicle-Tillman Cadle Collection
 
 No
012 Clarice Garland Billy Boy The Library of Congress
 
 No
012 Clutha Lord Ronald On the Braes 2001 2:59 Yes
012 Colm Ó Méalóid An Tiarna Randal Céad Slán le Camus 1985
 No
012 Custer LaRue & The Baltimore Consort Lord Ronald Custer LaRue Sings The Daemon Lover - Traditional Ballads & Songs of England, Scotland & America 1993 5:12 Yes
012 Cyril Tawney Jacky My Son The Outlandish Knight 1969 3:36 Yes
012 Dan Dutton Jimmy Randall A Murder of Crows 2004 4:19 Yes
012 Dan Livingstone Lord Randal The Helen Creighton Collection
 
 No
012 David Leinweber Billy Boy Simple Songs and a Box Guitar 2008
 No
012 Deborah Flanders Mother Make My Bed Soon Mother Make My Bed - A Collection of Vermont Folk Songs and Ballads 1997
 No
012 Dick Gaughan Lord Randall Kist O'Gold 1976 4:21 Yes
012 Donny Stewart & Terry Perkins Billy Boy American Folk Song Festival - Jean Thomas, the Traipsin' Woman 1960 1:28 Yes
012 Dorothy Bavey Lord Ronald (1) Steve Gardham Collection 1970-1982 :30 Yes
012 Dorothy Bavey Lord Ronald (2) Steve Gardham Collection 1970-1982 1:11 Yes
012 Dorothy Bavey Lord Ronald (3) Steve Gardham Collection 1970-1982 1:09 Yes
012 Dorothy Bavey My Boy Billy Steve Gardham Collection 1970-1982 2:44 Yes
012 Douglas Holmes Lord Roland The James Madison Carpenter Collection 1927-1955
 No
012 E.E. Hills Tyranty My Son The Helen Hartness Flanders Collection
 
 No
012 Ed McCurdy Billy Boy The Best of Ed McCurdy 1967
 No
012 Ed McCurdy Billy Boy Children's Songs 1958 1:49 Yes
012 Ed McCurdy Lord Randal O Love Is Teasin' - Anglo-American Mountain Balladry 1985 2:59 Yes
012 Ed McCurdy Lord Randal A Treasure Chest of American Folk Song 1961 2:59 Yes
012 Eliza Carthy Billy Boy + The Widdow's Wedding The Definitive Collection 2003 5:06 Yes
012 Eliza Carthy Billy Boy + The Widdow's Wedding Red 1998 5:09 Yes
012 Eliza Carthy Billy Boy + The Widdow's Wedding fRoots 11 1998 5:04 Yes
012 Elizabeth Cronin Lord Rendal BBC Recordings
 
 No
012 Elsie Miln Lord Randal The James Madison Carpenter Collection 1927-1955
 No
012 Emily Smith Lord Donald Traiveller’s Joy 2011 4:58 Yes
012 Ester Andersson Den Lillas Testamente Den Medeltida Balladen (The Medieval Ballad) - Folk Songs in Sweden 1995 2:03 Yes
012 Ester Andersson Den Lillas Testamente Traditional Folk Music - Folk Music in Sweden, Vol. 3 1995
 No
012 Ethel Grinsdale Billy Boy Steve Gardham Collection 1970-1982 :40 Yes
012 Everett Pitt Jimmy Randal Up Agin the Mountain - Traditional Ballads and Songs from the Eastern Ramapos 1987
 No
012 Ewan MacColl Lord Randall Van Dieman's Land + Lord Randall 1951 3:13 Yes
012 Ewan MacColl Lord Randall The English and Scottish Popular Ballads (The Child Ballads) - Vol. 1 [Reissue] 196?
 No
012 Ewan MacColl Lord Randall The English and Scottish Popular Ballads (The Child Ballads) - Vol. 1 1956
 No
012 Ewan MacColl Lord Randal Poetry and Song, Vol. 10 1967
 No
012 Ewan MacColl Henry My Son [English] The Long Harvest, Vol. 1 - Some Traditional Ballads in Their English, Scots and North American Variants 1966 2:44 Yes
012 Ewan MacColl Lord Randal English & Scottish Folk Ballads [1964] 1964
 No
012 Ewan MacColl Lord Randal English & Scottish Folk Ballads [1996] 1996 3:34 Yes
012 Ewan MacColl Lord Randal [Scots] The Long Harvest, Vol. 1 - Some Traditional Ballads in Their English, Scots and North American Variants 1966 3:51 Yes
012 Ewan MacColl Lord Randall Riverside Folk Song Sampler 2 1956
 No
012 Ewan MacColl Lord Randall The English and Scottish Popular Ballads (Child Ballads) - Vol. 1 1961 3:40 Yes
012 Ewan MacColl Willie Doo [Scots] The Long Harvest, Vol. 1 - Some Traditional Ballads in Their English, Scots and North American Variants 1966 1:27 Yes
012 Fiddler Beers & Evelyne Lord Randall Walkie in the Parlor - Songs with Ancient Psaltery 1960 3:37 Yes
012 Finn's Fury Henry My Son What About Ya? 2007 3:19 Yes
012 Frances Freeman Sweet Angia The Max Hunter Folk Song Collection
 2:33 Yes
012 Frank Harte Henry My Son Dublin Street Songs + Through Dublin City 2007
 No
012 Frank Proffitt Lord Randall Traditional Songs and Ballads of Appalachia 1962 3:28 Yes
012 Frank Proffitt Lord Randall Bolamkin - Frank Proffitt - 1 1987
 No
012 Fred Jordan Henry My Son The Gwilym Davies Collection
 
 No
012 Fred Jordan Henry My Son The Birds Upon the Tree and Other Traditional Songs and Tunes 2004
 No
012 Gary Plouff Lord Randal Blue River Ballads 2009
 No
012 Gene & Francesca Lord Randall Love and War Between the Sexes 1959
 No
012 George Dunn Henry My Son George Dunn 1975
 No
012 George Dunn Henry, My Son Chainmaker 2002
 No
012 George Dunn Henry My Son (1) Roy Palmer Collection 1971-1998 1:01 Yes
012 George Dunn Henry My Son (2) Roy Palmer Collection 1971-1998 1:42 Yes
012 George Dunn Henry My Son (3) Roy Palmer Collection 1971-1998 4:04 Yes
012 George Dunn Henry My Son (4) Roy Palmer Collection 1971-1998 2:50 Yes
012 George Spicer Henry, My Son Up in the North and Down in the South - Songs and Music from the Mike Yates Collection 1964-2000 2001
 No
012 George Spicer Henry, My Son Blackberry Fold - Traditional Songs and Ballads 1974
 No
012 George Vinton Graham Dear Adel, My Son California Gold - Northern California Folk Music from the Thirties Collected By Sidney Robertson Cowell 193? 1:33 Yes
012 Gerard Smith Henry, My Son Hamtramck: Heaven 2001
 No
012 Giordano Dall'Armellina Henry My Son Ballate Britanniche Del Tempo Che Fu - Medieval Ballads from the British Isles 2001 3:07 Yes
012 Giordano Dall'Armellina Lord Randal Ballate Europee Del Tempo Che Fu - Old Time Ballads from Europe 2001 5:09 Yes
012 Giordano Dall'Armellina Lord Randal Ballate Britanniche Del Tempo Che Fu - Medieval Ballads from the British Isles 2001 5:21 Yes
012 Giordano Dall'Armellina Lord Randall Ballate Britanniche Del Tempo Che Fu - Medieval Ballads from the British Isles 2001 6:19 Yes
012 Gordon Hall Lord Randal Good Things Enough 2001
 No
012 Gordon Heath & Lee Payant Lord Randall Folksongs and Footnotes 1956
 No
012 Gordon Mooney Lord Randal O'er the Border - Music of the Scottish Borders played on the Cauld Wind Pipes 1994 3:39 Yes
012 Grace Carr Henry My Son Folksongs of Saskatchewan 1963
 No
012 Graham & Company Henry My Son You Look Like Your Dog 2003 2:14 Yes
012 Graham & Company Henry My Son Find the Song 2005
 No
012 Green Man Henry My Son What Ails Thee? 2002 3:37 Yes
012 Group of Girls Billy Boy The Library of Congress
 
 No
012 Hanz Araki Jock Randall Wind and Rain 2010
 No
012 Harold Wirdnam Billy Boy (1) Roy Palmer Collection 1971-1998 1:32 Yes
012 Harold Wirdnam Billy Boy (2) Roy Palmer Collection 1971-1998 1:19 Yes
012 Harry Adams Henry My Son Bob & Jacqueline Patten Collection 1970-1999
 No
012 Harry Adams Randall My Son Bob & Jacqueline Patten Collection 1970-1999
 No
012 Harry Belafonte Lord Randall All Time Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 1988 4:10 Yes
012 Harry Belafonte Lord Randall Island in the Sun - The Complete Recordings 1949-1957 2002 4:13 Yes
012 Harry Belafonte Lord Randall Favourite Folk Songs 2005
 No
012 Harry Belafonte Lord Randall Mark Twain and Other Folk Favorites 1954 4:09 Yes
012 Harry Belafonte Lord Randall Harry Belafonte Sings 24 Calypso & Folk Songs 2005
 No
012 Harry Belafonte Lord Randall Hold 'Em Joe - Folk, Calypso & Other Popular Songs 2005
 No
012 Harry Belafonte Lord Randall Folk Songs 2005 4:10 Yes
012 Henri's Notions Billy Boy John O' Dreams 2004 4:02 Yes
012 Howie Mitchell Lord Randall American Folk Songs 1963 3:58 Yes
012 Hulton Clint Billy Boy (B) <website> 2008- 1:42 Yes
012 Isla Cameron Lord Randall The Jupiter Book of Ballads 1962 3:01 Yes
012 Ivory Lord Randall Gentle Maiden 2006
 No
012 J. Kearns Planche Lord Randall The John Donald Robb Field Recordings 1944-1979
 3:02 Yes
012 Jack Armstrong & Patricia Jennings Billy Boy The Northumbrian Smallpipes 1969
 No
012 James Cleveland My Bonny Bon Boy The Gwilym Davies Collection
 
 No
012 James E. Shepard Jimmie Rendal The Helen Hartness Flanders Collection
 
 No
012 Janet MacDonald Bourne Tyranty My Son The Helen Hartness Flanders Collection
 
 No
012 Jean Jenkins Lord Randall The Wife of Usher's Well - Mountain Ballads 1976
 No
012 Jean Redpath Wee Croodin Doo Music of Scotland 1974
 No
012 Jean Ritchie Ennery My Son A Folk Concert in Town Hall, New York 1959 1:49 Yes
012 Jean Ritchie Lord Randall British Traditional Ballads in the Southern Mountains - Child Ballads, Vol 2 1961 2:47 Yes
012 Jean Ritchie Lord Randall Ballads from Her Appalachian Family Tradition 2003 2:54 Yes
012 Jean Ritchie My Boy Willie Mountain Hearth and Home 2004 1:26 Yes
012 Jean Ritchie & Oscar Brand Lord Randall My Son A Folk Concert in Town Hall, New York 1959 2:57 Yes
012 Jeannette Lambert Billy Boy Bebop for Babies 2 - More Jazz Versions of Classic Children's Songs 2006 2:23 Yes
012 Jeannie Higgins (Robertson) Lord Donald BBC Recordings
 
 No
012 Jeannie Robertson Lord Donald The Gypsy Lady - Jeannie Robertson Sings the Big Ballads [The Muckle Ballads of Scotland] 1979 7:34 Yes
012 Jeannie Robertson + Elizabeth Cronin + Thomas Moran + Colm McDonagh + Eirlys & Eddis Thomas Lord Randal Classic Ballads of Britain & Ireland - Folk Songs of England, Ireland, Scotland & Wales, Vol 1 2000 3:30 Yes
012 Jeannie Robertson + Elizabeth Cronin + Thomas Moran + Colm McDonagh + Eirlys & Eddis Thomas Lord Randal (Lord Donald, My Son) The Folk Songs of Britain, Vol 4: The Child Ballads 1 1961 3:28 Yes
012 Jim & Art Billy Boy Jim and Art Sing and Play a Folk Song 1962
 No
012 Jim Krause Henry, My Son Going Up the Missouri: Songs & Dance Tunes from Old Fort Osage 1999 2:46 Yes
012 Jimmie Rodgers Lord Randal, My Son Jimmie Rodgers Sings Folk Songs + The Folk Song World of Jimmie Rodgers 2001 3:27 Yes
012 Jimmy Driftwood Lord Randall The John Quincy Wolf Folklore Collection - Ozark Folksongs
 2:21 Yes
012 Jimmy Hutchison Lord Donald Corachree - Scots Songs & Ballads 2000 5:07 Yes
012 Jo Mapes Billy Boy The Hootenanny Star 1964 2:07 Yes
012 Joe Heaney [Seosamh Ó hÉanaí] Amhrán Na hEascainne - the Song of the Eel (Lord Randal) The Road from Connemara: Songs and Stories Told and Sung to Ewan MacColl & Peggy Seeger 2000 5:39 Yes
012 Joe Heaney [Seosamh Ó hÉanaí] An Tiarna Randal Say a Song - Irish Songs in the Old Style (Sean-Nos) - Joe Heaney in the Pacific Northwest 2006 3:24 Yes
012 Joe Heaney [Seosamh Ó hÉanaí] An Tiarna Randall Ó Mo Dhúchas - From My Tradition [Sraith 1 & Sraith 2] 2007 4:15 Yes
012 Joe Heaney [Seosamh Ó hÉanaí] An Tighearna Randal (Lord Randal) Irish Traditional Songs in Gaelic and English 1989 4:01 Yes
012 Joe Keenan There Were Three Crows There Were 3 Crows - Stories and Songs for All 2004
 No
012 John & Ena MacDonald Lord Randal The Roving Ploughboy 1975
 No
012 John Charles Thomas Ballad of Lord Randall Home on the Range 1999
 No
012 John Charles Thomas Lord Randall Prima Voce - an American Classic 1992
 No
012 John Hodson Billy Boy Steve Gardham Collection 1970-1982 : 6 Yes
012 John Jacob Niles Jimmy Randal My Precarious Life in the Public Domain [Folk Balladeer] 2006 3:03 Yes
012 John Jacob Niles Jimmy Randal 50th Anniversary Album 1956
 No
012 John Jacob Niles Jimmy Randal The Ballads of John Jacob Niles 1960 2:27 Yes
012 John Jacob Niles Jimmy Randal Child Ballads 2008
 No
012 John Kirkpatrick The Wild, Wild Berry Make No Bones 2007
 No
012 John Langstaff Billy Boy John Langstaff Sings - Archival Folk Collection 1949-1961 2004
 No
012 John Langstaff Billy Boy The Water Is Wide: American and British Ballads and Folksongs 2002 1:18 Yes
012 John Langstaff Lord Rendal John Langstaff Sings - Archival Folk Collection 1949-1961 2004 4:36 No
012 John Langstaff Lord Rendal The Water Is Wide: American and British Ballads and Folksongs 2002 4:36 Yes
012 John Langstaff Lord Rendal The Seeds of Love 1987
 No
012 John Langstaff The Croodin' Doo John Langstaff Sings - Archival Folk Collection 1949-1961 2004 1:02 No
012 John Langstaff The Croodin' Doo The Water Is Wide: American and British Ballads and Folksongs 2002 1:02 Yes
012 John MacDonald Lord Ronald The Voice of the People, Vol. 3: O'Er His Grave the Grass Grew Green - Tragic Ballads 1998 3:11 Yes
012 John MacDonald Lord Ronald The Singing Molecatcher of Moray 1975
 No
012 John Wright & Catherine Perrier Le Garçon Empoisonné (Poisoned Boy) John Wright & Catherine Perrier - Traditional Music of France, Ireland & England 1978
 No
012 Johnny Doughty My Boy Billy Up in the North and Down in the South - Songs and Music from the Mike Yates Collection 1964-2000 2001
 No
012 Johnny Doughty My Boy Billy Round Rye Bay for More - Traditional Songs from the Sussex Coast 1977 1:24 Yes
012 Jon Boden Lord Randal A Folk Song a Day - August 2010 3:42 Yes
012 Jon Spicer Henry My Son John Howson Collection 1970-1995
 No
012 Jonathan Francis Lord Randall Love These Songs 2010
 No
012 Jonathan Moses Lord Henry The Helen Hartness Flanders Collection
 
 No
012 Jonathan Moses Young Willie My Son The Helen Hartness Flanders Collection
 
 No
012 Joseph Kling Henry My Son (1) The Library of Congress
 
 No
012 Joseph Kling Henry My Son (2) The Library of Congress
 
 No
012 Josh White Lord Randall, My Son From New York to London - The Classic Recordings 2002 3:13 Yes
012 Josh White Lord Randall, My Son Josh White in Chronical Order - Vol. 6 2000
 No
012 Josh White Billy Boy Blood Red River 2006
 No
012 Josh White Lord Randall, My Son Blood Red River 2006
 No
012 Josiah Kennison Billy Boy The Helen Hartness Flanders Collection
 
 No
012 Joyce Sullivan & Charles Jordan Hennery, My Son Folk Songs of Canada 1955 2:57 Yes
012 Judy Bright Wee Croodlin' Doo This Is Judy Bright 1964 3:06 Yes
012 Judy Cook Green and Yellow Far from the Lowlands 2000 1:47 Yes
012 Judy Cook Lord Randal Far from the Lowlands 2000 2:57 Yes
012 Judy Cook The Wild, Wild Berry Far from the Lowlands 2000 1:42 Yes
012 Julie Henigan John Randolph American Stranger 1997 3:05 Yes
012 June Tabor & Maddy Prior Buried in Kilkenny Always 2005 3:02 Yes
012 Kallen Esperian & The Memphis Vocal Arts Ensemble Billy Boy American Treasure 1999 1:44 Yes
012 Kathleen Behan My Bonny Brown Boy Hamish Henderson Collects - Songs, Ballads and a Story from the School of Scottish Studies Archives 2005 3:39 Yes
012 Kathleen Danson Read Lord Randall Spoken Literature of Early English Ballads 1956 3:05 Yes
012 Kelly & Kerry Ryer Henry M' Son If You Want Any More You Can Sing It Yourself 1979 1:35 Yes
012 Kidz Jamz Billy Boy Peach Jamz 2005 2:51 Yes
012 Kornog Ma Wee Wee Croodin Doo Kornog IV 1987 3:01 Yes
012 Lamont Tilden My Boy Willie The Edith Fowke Collection
 
 No
012 Lana Ross Billy Boy American Folk and Classical Guitar Music Played in Nashville for My Friends 2001
 No
012 Laura Hooker Session Billy Boy The Helen Hartness Flanders Collection
 
 No
012 Lawrence Older Johnny Randall Adirondack Songs, Ballads & Tunes 1964 1:42 Yes
012 Len Graham, Garry O'Briain & Pádraigín Ní Uallacháin Henry My Son When I Was Young: Children's Songs from Ireland 1999 3:24 Yes
012 Lena Willemark Den Lilas Testamente När Som Gräset Det Vajar 1989 3:17 Yes
012 Lew Dite Billy Boy <website> [Lew Dite] 2007- 1:35 Yes
012 Little Girl Singer at Robertson's Lord Ronald The James Madison Carpenter Collection 1927-1955
 No
012 Lizzie Higgins Lord Donald The Blair Tapes - Recordings from Blairgowrie Folk Festival 1986-1995 2000
 No
012 Lola Wilson & Joy Hackler Billy Boy The Mary Elizabeth Barnicle-Tillman Cadle Collection
 
 No
012 Loretta Taylor & Mrs. N.V. Braley Billy Boy Southern Mosaic - The John & Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip 1939 1:30 Yes
012 Lorraine Jordan Lord Randal This Big Feeling 2000 5:04 Yes
012 Lorraine Jordan Lord Randal Her Voice Rang Through the Years - Female Folk Singers 2006 5:04 Yes
012 Lorraine Jordan & Band Lord Randall Live at Fiddlers Green 2000 5:34 Yes
012 Louisa Hooper Lord Rendal BBC Recordings
 
 No
012 Louise Holmes My Boy Billy BBC Recordings
 
 No
012 Mabel Wilson Tatro Lord Randal The Helen Hartness Flanders Collection
 
 No
012 Mabel Wilson Tatro Mother Make My Bed Soon The Helen Hartness Flanders Collection
 
 No
012 Maddy Prior & June Tabor Wouldn't I Long to Lie Down (Lord Randal) Live at BBC Concert Hall, Lancashire 07-14-1988 1988 3:29 Yes
012 Mark T. Lord Ronald The Garden of Love 1992
 No
012 Mark T. Lord Ronald Folk Songs and Ballads 2011
 No
012 Marooned Henry My Son Marooned 2003 2:10 Yes
012 Martha Reid Lord Randal Scottish Tradition 24: Songs and Ballads from Perthshire 2011
 No
012 Martin Best Lord Randal When First I Ever Saw You 1979
 No
012 Martin Carthy Billy Boy Sweet Wivelsfield 1974 2:51 Yes
012 Martin Carthy Lord Randall The Carthy Chronicles 2001 4:29 Yes
012 Martin Carthy Lord Randall Shearwater 1972 4:29 Yes
012 Martin Carthy Lord Randall The Collection 1993 4:14 Yes
012 Martin Carthy Lord Randall Because It's There 1979 4:15 Yes
012 Martin Carthy Lord Randall Clogs 1972
 No
012 Martin Carthy Lord Randall Anthems in Eden - an Anthology of British and Irish Folk 1955-1978 2005 4:35 Yes
012 Martin Graebe & Shan Cowan Jacky My Son Parallel Strands 2005
 No
012 Mary Delaney Buried in Kilkenny The Voice of the People, Vol. 17: It Fell on a Day, a Bonny Summer Day - Ballads 1998 5:48 Yes
012 Mary Heekin Lord Randolph Art of Field Recording, Vol. I - 50 Years of Traditional American Music Documented by Art Rosenbaum 2007 6:03 Yes
012 Mary O'Hara Lord Randal Mary O'Hara's Scotland 1974 3:40 Yes
012 Mary Stewart Robertson Lord Ronald The James Madison Carpenter Collection 1927-1955
 No
012 Max Dunbar Lord Randall Songs and Ballads of the Scottish Wars, 1290-1745 1956 2:36 Yes
012 Max Hunter Billy Boy The Max Hunter Folk Song Collection
 1:57 Yes
012 Merritt Earl Billy Boy The Helen Hartness Flanders Collection
 
 No
012 Michael Doyle Henry My Son Keeping It Traditional 2004
 No
012 Mimmi Johansson Den Lillas Testamente Den Medeltida Balladen (The Medieval Ballad) - Folk Songs in Sweden 1995 2:33 Yes
012 Mort Montonyea Ranzel My Son The Library of Congress
 
 No
012 Mrs. Althouse Billy Boy The Helen Hartness Flanders Collection
 
 No
012 Mrs. Arlington Fraser Billy Boy The Edith Fowke Collection
 
 No
012 Mrs Buchan Bull My Boy Tommy The James Madison Carpenter Collection 1927-1955
 No
012 Mrs. C.S. MacClellan Billy Boy The Library of Congress
 
 No
012 Mrs Cameron Lord Randal The James Madison Carpenter Collection 1927-1955
 No
012 Mrs. Cleophas Franklin Billy Boy The Library of Congress
 
 No
012 Mrs. E.E. Hills Tyranty The Helen Hartness Flanders Collection
 
 No
012 Mrs. Edward Gallagher Lord Randal (1) The Helen Creighton Collection
 
 No
012 Mrs. Edward Gallagher Lord Randal (2) The Helen Creighton Collection
 
 No
012 Mrs. Edward Gallagher Lord Randall The Helen Creighton Collection
 
 No
012 Mrs. Ellen M. Sullivan Lord Randal The Helen Hartness Flanders Collection
 
 No
012 Mrs. Emma Dusenbury Billy Boy The Library of Congress
 
 No
012 Mrs. Eva Bigrow Billy Boy The Edith Fowke Collection
 
 No
012 Mrs. George A. Webb Lord Randal The Library of Congress
 
 No
012 Mrs. Grace Pettingell Billy Boy The Helen Hartness Flanders Collection
 
 No
012 Mrs. Guy Moran Billy Boy The Helen Creighton Collection
 
 No
012 Mrs. Henry Dennison Tiranty The Helen Hartness Flanders Collection
 
 No
012 Mrs. J.U. Newman Billy Boy The Library of Congress
 
 No
012 Mrs. J.U. Newman Lord Randal The Library of Congress
 
 No
012 Mrs James York Lord Randal The James Madison Carpenter Collection 1927-1955
 No
012 Mrs. L.L. McDowell Billy Boy The Library of Congress
 
 No
012 Mrs. Minta Morgan Billy Boy The Library of Congress
 
 No
012 Mrs. Nettie Huddleston Barnes Charming Billy The John Quincy Wolf Folklore Collection - Ozark Folksongs
 :50 Yes
012 Mrs. Nina Bartley Finn Lord Randall The Helen Creighton Collection
 
 No
012 Mrs. Oscar Allen John Randolph Cumberland Gap - Maud Karpeles' Appalachian Collection 2 1976
 No
012 Mrs. Sarah Ison Randal My Son The Library of Congress
 
 No
012 Mrs. Shirley Lomax Mansell Billy Boy Southern Mosaic - The John & Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip 1939 1:59 Yes
012 Mrs Thompson Lord Randal The James Madison Carpenter Collection 1927-1955
 No
012 Mrs Vass Lord Randal The James Madison Carpenter Collection 1927-1955
 No
012 Mrs. Virginia Morris Lord Randall The Max Hunter Folk Song Collection
 2:21 Yes
012 Mrs. W.R. Buchanan Billy Boy The Library of Congress
 
 No
012 Mrs William Duncan Lord Randal The James Madison Carpenter Collection 1927-1955
 No
012 Nathan Hall Billy Boy The Helen Creighton Collection
 
 No
012 Nina & Frederik Billy Boy Dejlige Minder 2007 2:39 Yes
012 Nina & Frederik Billy Boy 100 Go'e 2006 2:37 Yes
012 Norman Kennedy Lord Donald 'Live' in Scotland 2002
 No
012 Ollie Gilbert Billy Boy The Max Hunter Folk Song Collection
 :56 Yes
012 Ollie Gilbert Jimmy Randolph The Max Hunter Folk Song Collection
 1:18 Yes
012 Opus Anglicanum Lord Randel The Seeds of Love 1997
 No
012 Oscar Degreenia Lord Nelson The Helen Hartness Flanders Collection
 
 No
012 Owen Brannigan Billy Boy Scottish & Newcastle
Scottish & Newcastle 1998
 No
012 Paddy O'Connor Henry My Son The Music of Ireland - A Collection of Irish Country Favourites 1998
 No
012 Paddy Reilly Buried in Kilkenny Early in the Month of Spring - Songs and a Story of Irish Travellers 1986
 No
012 Paddy Reilly Buried in Kilkenny From Puck to Appleby - Songs of Irish Travellers in England 2003 3:50 Yes
012 Pat Kilbride Henry My Son Nightingale Lane 2002 4:53 Yes
012 Pat Kilbride Lord Randall Rock & More Roses 1990 4:05 Yes
012 Patrick Ward Gainer John Ellis My Son Child Ballads of West Virginia
 2:51 Yes
012 Patrick Ward Gainer John Randall (Childrens' Version) Child Ballads of West Virginia
 1:51 Yes
012 Patrick Ward Gainer Johnny Randall Child Ballads of West Virginia
 1:46 Yes
012 Paul Austin Kelly Billy Boy The Walking Oliver Sing-A-Long 2003 2:21 Yes
012 Paul Austin Kelly & Richard Durrant Henry, My Son Unleashed on British Isles 2004 4:43 Yes
012 Paul Lorette Mother Make My Bed Soon The Helen Hartness Flanders Collection
 
 No
012 Peggy Seeger Billy Boy [American] The Long Harvest, Vol. 1 - Some Traditional Ballads in Their English, Scots and North American Variants 1966 2:39 Yes
012 Peggy Seeger Croodin Doo [American] The Long Harvest, Vol. 1 - Some Traditional Ballads in Their English, Scots and North American Variants 1966 1:44 Yes
012 Peggy Seeger Jimmy Randal [American] The Long Harvest, Vol. 1 - Some Traditional Ballads in Their English, Scots and North American Variants 1966 3:52 Yes
012 Peggy Seeger What Did You Have for Your Supper American Folk Songs for Children 1997 :37 Yes
012 Pete Castle Henry My Son Golden Vanitee - Folk Songs for Older Children 1997
 No
012 Pete Morton, Roger Wilson & Simon Edwards Lord Randall Urban Folk Vol. II 1997 7:20 Yes
012 Pete Seeger Henry My Son Children's Concert at Town Hall 1963 3:51 Yes
012 Pete Seeger Henry My Son A Link in the Chain 1996 3:48 Yes
012 Pete Seeger Henry My Son For Kids and Just Plain Folks 1998
 No
012 Pete Seeger & Arlo Guthrie Henry My Son Together in Concert 1975 2:13 Yes
012 Pete Seeger & Frank Hamilton Lord Randall Nonesuch and Other Folk Tunes 1959 2:14 Yes
012 Peter Bellamy Lord Randall Big, Broadside & Barrack Room Ballads - the Ballads of Peter Bellamy 2008 3:13 Yes
012 Peter Bellamy Lord Randall Second Wind 1985 3:16 Yes
012 Peter Kasin & Richard Adrianowicz Billy Boy With Shipmates All Around 2010
 No
012 Phil Cooper & Susan Urban Billy Boy February Sky 2008
 No
012 Phyllis Marks Willie My Son Folksongs and Ballads, Vol 2 1991
 No
012 Poitín Billy Boy Bofiguifluki 2010
 No
012 Poor Old Horse Jimmy Randall The Curate's Egg 2004
 No
012 Ray Bohannan Billy Boy The Library of Congress
 
 No
012 Ray Driscoll Lord Randall Wild, Wild Berry - The Songs of Ray Driscoll 2008
 No
012 Ray Driscoll Lord Randall (1) The Gwilym Davies Collection
 
 No
012 Ray Driscoll Lord Randall (2) The Gwilym Davies Collection
 
 No
012 Ray Driscoll Lord Randall (3) The Gwilym Davies Collection
 
 No
012 Ray Driscoll Poisoned Berries The Gwilym Davies Collection
 
 No
012 Ray Driscoll The Wild, Wild Berry A Century of Song - A Celebration of Traditional Singers Since 1898 1998 1:45 Yes
012 Ray Driscoll Wild, Wild Berry Wild, Wild Berry - The Songs of Ray Driscoll 2008
 No
012 Ray Driscoll Wild Wild Berry (1) The Gwilym Davies Collection
 
 No
012 Ray Driscoll Wild Wild Berry (2) The Gwilym Davies Collection
 
 No
012 Ray Driscoll Wild Wild Berry (3) The Gwilym Davies Collection
 
 No
012 Raymond Crooke Lord Randal <website> 2007 5:22 Yes
012 Raymond Crooke Billy Boy <website> 2007- 2:22 Yes
012 Raymond Crooke My Boy Willie <website> 2007- 2:26 Yes
012 ReGael Henry My Son Coastlines 2007 5:10 Yes
012 Relig Oran Billy Boy The Dark Side 2007 3:58 Yes
012 Rev. H.W. Stuckey Where Have You Been, Charming Billy Florida Folklife from the WPA Collections 1937-1942 1939 1:16 Yes
012 Richard Dyer-Bennet Lord Rendal Richard Dyer-Bennet Vol. 5 2001 5:07 Yes
012 Richard Dyer-Bennet Lord Rendal Folk Songs 1953
 No
012 Richard Dyer-Bennet Lord Randal A Richard Dyer-Bennet Concert - Folk Songs and Ballads 1962
 No
012 Richard Dyer-Bennet Lord Randall The Great Memory Folk Songs 1967
 No
012 Richard Levitt, Charles Byrd & Carl Tucker Lord Rendal Wayfaring Stranger 1960 4:20 Yes
012 Rite De Passage Lord Randal Sport 1982 3:42 Yes
012 Robert Smith Lord Randal Volume 2 1956
 No
012 Ronnie Browne O Where Hae You Been, Lord Ronald, My Son? The Complete Songs of Robert Burns, Vol. 3 1997 1:38 Yes
012 Rootdogs Lord Ronald Rootdogs Live 2007 4:59 Yes
012 Rotvälta Den Lillas Testamente Hemlig Stod Jag 1991 2:19 Yes
012 Russell Lahew Billy Boy The Gwilym Davies Collection
 
 No
012 Sågskära Den Lillas Testamente Orm 2006
 No
012 Sam Bennett Boy Billy The James Madison Carpenter Collection 1927-1955
 No
012 Sandy Paton Wee Croodlin' Doo The Many Sides of Sandy Paton 1959
 No
012 Sara Cleveland My Bonny Bon Boy Ballads and Songs of the Upper Hudson Valley 1968 2:30 Yes
012 Seelie Court Billy Boy + Banish Misfortunate Cobblestone 2007
 No
012 Seriouskitchen Lord Randal On the Mash 2002 4:53 Yes
012 Sheila Kay Adams Jimmy Randall My Dearest Dear 2002 3:11 Yes
012 Shep Ginandes Billie Boy There Was a Little Tree - American Folksongs for Children 1953
 No
012 Shep Ginandes Lord Randall British Traditional Ballads in America Vol 1 1953
 No
012 Shirley Gifford & Vinnie Zummo Billy Boy Lullabies for Little Angels 2005 3:02 Yes
012 Simply English Billy Boy Jolly Rogues Together 1999 :49 Yes
012 Singer from Fochabers Lord Randal The James Madison Carpenter Collection 1927-1955
 No
012 Singer from Port Gordon Lord Randal The James Madison Carpenter Collection 1927-1955
 No
012 Smoky Mountain Children Billy Boy The Mary Elizabeth Barnicle-Tillman Cadle Collection
 
 No
012 Staverton Bridge Jacky My Son Staverton Bridge - Ballads, Broadsides, Rural and Industrial Songs, Traditional and Contemporary 1975 3:35 Yes
012 Steeleye Span Lord Randall Horkstow Grange 1999 4:14 Yes
012 Susan Reed Lord Randall I Know My Love 1950
 No
012 Tekla Bodin Den Lillas Testamente Den Medeltida Balladen (The Medieval Ballad) - Folk Songs in Sweden 1995 3:04 Yes
012 Terrea Lea Little Wee Croodin' Doo Terrea Lea and Her Singing Guitar: Folk Songs 1957 2:16 Yes
012 The Alan Elsdon Band Lord Randall Jazz Journeymen 1977
 No
012 The Baltimore Consort Lord Ronald (Lord Randal) Live in Concert [Baltimore Consort] 2009 5:59 Yes
012 The Boston Camerata & Joel Cohen Billy Boy New Britain: The Roots of American Folksong 1989 1:13 Yes
012 The Countdown Kids Billy Boy Mommy and Me - 100 Songs for Kids - Sing-a-long Favorites 2001 2:05 Yes
012 The Creel Lord Randall Appellation 1998 3:51 Yes
012 The Crofters Henry My Son Hold My Beer While I Kiss Your Girlfriend 2003 5:11 Yes
012 The Dublin Ramblers Lord Randall Whiskey in the Jar 1991 2:02 Yes
012 The Elliot Family Family History + ... + Henry My Son (medley) The Elliots of Birtley - A Musical Portrait of a Durham Mining Family 1961
 No
012 The Errant Band of Roving Troubadours Lord Randall Plough and Scatter 2007
 No
012 The High Level Ranters Billy Boy Northumberland Forever - Traditional Dance & Song from the North East 1968 2:29 Yes
012 The Jones Brothers & The Log Cabin Boys Billy Boy 200 Years of American Heritage in Song - Country Folk Bluegrass: 100 Classics 1999 1:43 Yes
012 The Mick West Band Lord Randall Right Side O' the People 2003 4:19 Yes
012 The Pickard Family Billy Boy The Pickard Family Sings Hits of Yesteryear … 1957 2:54 Yes
012 The Poxy Boggards Henry Me Son Barley Legal - More Songs About Women and Beer 2000
 No
012 The Prodigals Lord Randall Dreaming in Hell's Kitchen 2001 4:11 Yes
012 The Spinners 'Enery, My Son Folk at the Phil! 1964 2:11 Yes
012 The Spinners Lord Randall Folk at the Phil! 1964 2:21 Yes
012 The Witches of Elswick Billy Boy Hell's Belles 2005 4:39 Yes
012 The Witches of Elswick Lord Randal Out of Bed 2001 3:45 Yes
012 Thomas Moran Lord Rendal BBC Recordings
 
 No
012 Tom Glazer & Pat Moffitt Lord Rendel The Musical Heritage of America 1973 4:08 Yes
012 Tom Kines Lord Randall ..And Not One Police 1969
 No
012 Tom Paley Billy Boy Poetry and Song, Vol. 7 1967
 No
012 Tony Rose Lord Rendall On Banks of Green Willow 1971 3:56 Yes
012 Tossi Aaron Lord Randall Tossi Sings Folk Songs and Ballads 196?
 No
012 Two Female Singers Lord Randal The James Madison Carpenter Collection 1927-1955
 No
012 Unidentified Singer Billy Boy Reg Hall Archive 1953-1977 1:17 Yes
012 Unknown Billy Boy The Traveling People of Ireland - Irish Tinker Music Collected By Alen MacWeeney 1966
 No
012 Unknown Female Lord Rendall Collection Universelle De Musique Populaire Enregistrée [World Collection of Recorded Folk Music] - Disque V - Europe 3 1958 1:38 Yes
012 Unknown Female Singer Lord Randal The James Madison Carpenter Collection 1927-1955
 No
012 Vicki Fremlin Brandon Henery My Son The Edith Fowke Collection
 
 No
012 Vincent McGuckin Billy Boy The Helen Creighton Collection
 
 No
012 W.C. Cruickshank Lord Randal The James Madison Carpenter Collection 1927-1955
 No
012 W.E. Bird Billy Boy The Robert Winslow Gordon Collection
 
 No
012 W. Michael Foster (Spriggits) Lord Randall <website> 2006 4:07 Yes
012 W.T. Jernigan Billy Boy The John Quincy Wolf Folklore Collection - Ozark Folksongs
 :50 Yes
012 Walter Broadbank Early One Morning + Billy Boy Steve Gardham Collection 1970-1982 1:28 Yes
012 Wheeler Street My Son John Roodumdah 2009
 No
012 William Duncan Lord Randal (2) The James Madison Carpenter Collection 1927-1955
 No
012 William Duncan Lord Randall (1) The James Madison Carpenter Collection 1927-1955
 No
012 William Mathieson Lord Randal The James Madison Carpenter Collection 1927-1955
 No
012 William Morrison Lord Ronald The James Madison Carpenter Collection 1927-1955
 No
012 William Pint & Felicia Dale Billy Boy Seven Seas 2004 5:11 Yes
012 William Ross Lord Randal The James Madison Carpenter Collection 1927-1955
 No
012 William T. Day Billy Boy California Gold - Northern California Folk Music from the Thirties Collected By Sidney Robertson Cowell 193? :44 Yes
012 William Webster Billy Boy The Helen Hartness Flanders Collection  No
012 Wood, Wilson, Carthy Billy Boy Wood, Wilson, Carthy 1998 4:03 Yes 

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Excerpt from The British Traditional Ballad in North America by Tristram Coffin, 1950

from the section A Critical Biographical Study of the Traditional Ballads of North America

12. LORD RANDAL

Texts: Barry, Brit Bids Me, 46 / Belden, Mo F-S, 24 / Brewster, Bids Sgs Ind, 5 1 / Brown Coll/ BFSSNE, I, /BullUSC 162, /Chzpvdl /F-S RnkeAlb, 14.7 Child, I, 163 / Cox, F-S South, 23 / Cox, Trd Bid WVa /W7a School Journal and Educator, XLV, 266 / Davis, Trd Bid Fa, 105 / Decennial Publication, Univ. of Chicago, 1903, VII, 140 / Eddy, Bids Sgs Ohio, 21 / Flanders, Ft F-S Bids, 197 j Focus, III, 399; IV, 31, 100 / Gardner and Chickering, Bids Sgs So Mich, 35 / Garrison, Searcy Cnty, 30 / Harper's Mgz (May, 1915), 908 / Haun, Cocke Cnty, j% / Henry, F~S So Hghlds, 45 / Hudson, F-S Miss, 69 / Hudson, Spec Miss F-L, #4 / Hummel, OzF-S / JAFL, XIII, 1155 XVI, 258; XVIII, 195, 303, 376; XXIV, 3455 XXIX, t57; XXX, 289; XXXV, 339; XXXIX, 8i; XLII, 257; XLIV, 302 / Kolb, Treasry F-S, 14 / Linscott, F-S Old NE, 191 / Macintosh, F-S So III, 26 / Mason, Cannon Cnty, 13 / McGill, F-S Ky Mts, 19 / MLN, XVII, 12 / MLR, XIV, 21 1 / AW Pbil, XXIX, 105 / Morm, F-S Fla, 379 / Musical Quarterly ', II, 127 / Narragansett Times, 2 2 '45 / Niles, .B&& Lv Sgs Tgc Lgds, 14 / Niles, Anglo-Am Bid Stdy Bk, 6 / Pound, Am Bids Sgs, 3 / Pound, Nebr Syllabus, 9 / Outlook, LXIII, 121 / Randolph, Oz F-S, I, 63 / Randolph, Oz Mt Flk, 215 / Scarborough, Sgctchr So Mts, 178 / Sewanee Review, XIX, 3177 SharpC, EngF-S So Aplcbns, #6 / Sharp K, Eng F-S So Aplcbns, I, 38 / Shoemaker, Mt Mnstly, 144 / Shoemaker, No Pa Mnstly, 139 / Shearin and Combs, Ky Syllabus, 7 / Reed Smith, SC Bids, 101 / 7 a FLS uH, pz 5, 7 i r.

Local Titles: A Rope and Gallows, Billy Randall, Dear Willie, Durango, Fair Nelson My Son, Henry My Son, Jimmie Randall (Randolph, etc.), John Elzie, Johnny Randall (Rilla, Reeler, Ramsay, Riller, Reynolds, Ramble, Rillus, Randolph, etc.), Johnnie Randolph My Son, John Willow My Son, Lord Lantoun, Lord Ronald My Son, McDonald, Mother Make My Bed Soon, Poor Anzo, Randall (Ransel, etc.) My Son, Sweet William, Terence, The Cup of Cold Poison, Three Cups of Cold Poison, The Jealous Lover, The Poisoned Child, Tyranty (many spellings), Tyranty My Son, Uriar My Son, Where Have You Been to My Dear Son?, Willy Ransome, Wooing and Death of John Randal.

Story Types:

A: A man, through a dialogue with his mother, tells that he has spent the night with his sweetheart, eaten a poisoned supper, and is now sick. His dogs usually are revealed to have died from the leavings. In his last "bequests" the sweetheart is cursed and shown to be the murderer.

Examples: Belden (C); Cox, F-S South (A);
Davis (A); Reed Smith (A).

B: The story is the same as that of Type A, except that the hero forgives his sweetheart and seems to remain faithful to her although he knows she has poisoned him. Examples: Davis (L).

C: Some versions name other persons than the sweetheart as the murderer. Henry (Randal's brother), grandmother, sister, stepmother, wife, grandpa, and even Randal himself has this role.

Examples: Barry (K, 0); Cox, F-S South (E);
Davis, p. 1189; Eddy (B, C); Gardner and dickering;
JAFL, XVIII, 201 ff.; Linscott.

D: There is a Massachusetts version in which Randal goes fishing and catches an eel which he cooks and eats by mistake. The dialogue consists of his mother's discovery of the fatal error.

Examples: Barry (N). -

E: The same story as that of Type A, except the sister and the sweetheart have conspired to kill Randal.

Examples: Shoemaker, Mt. Mnstly,

Discussion: This ballad has extremely long and varied European, British, and American traditions (See Child, 1, 151 ff. and Barry, Brit Bids Me, 611.). It is said to be the most popular purely traditional song in America, for there have been no pocket songster versions to aid its spread as has been the case of Barbara Allen and Lord Thomas and Fair Annet (See Barry, Brit
Bids Me, 65). In the texts, there are any number of detail variations, but the story itself has remained quite constant.

This song has been the subject of a large amount of study and research, most of it connected with the names given the hero (See Zielonko, Some American Variants of Child Ballads, 47 and Reed Smith, SC Bids, 56). The alliance of the Randolph family of Virginia and West Virginia with the story has been noted by Davis, Trd Bid Fa, 105, although Vance Randolph, Oz F-S I, 63 points out that the ballad was aligned with the Randolphs in the Old World as well. Check, too, Scott, Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border (1902 ed.), Ill, 51.) Scott also indicates in the same work the similarity of the story to that of King John's death. See the Child C "King Henry" type, retained in Cox, F-S South, E.

The poison used by the true-love is generally considered to be snakes, served as eels or fish (Child, I, 155), although frequently she may serve simply poison or some such corruption as "ale" (eel), or even the cold cakes and coffee of Cox, F-S South, H. (See JAFL, XVI, 259.) Toads and reptiles of other sorts are also used, and Barry, Brit Bids Me, 61 points out that
newts were, by many people, considered poisonous when eaten.

The death wished for the true-love is by "hell-fire and brimstone" (Cox, of cit., A) in most American versions, while the death of the hawks and dogs is often omitted.

The story groups do not vary in general character, although they change in mood and motive. The Type C ballads in which the grandmother is the villain are probably the results of influence by the Scottish Croodlin Doo texts (Barry, Br it Bids Me, 66) and in New England frequently refer to the man as Tyranti. Barry, op. cit., 71 2 deftly explains this grandmother intrusion into the American texts. He believes the Child J-0 series tells a story in which a stepmother poisons a boy with small fish, and the dying youth is questioned by the ghost of his natural mother. This incident became rationalized as people ceased to believe in ghosts, and the grandmother and the natural mother herself were substituted into the narrative. Once this had happened, other members of the family might have slipped in. Type D he feels was "communally recreated" from Type C. Reed Smith in his chapter "The Road Downhill" in SC Bids, 64 prints a Poor Anzo version that is unbelievably corrupt and that should be studied carefully as the extreme of transmission degeneration. Besides the new name of the hero, the mother's questions mean little: "What did you leave your father (etc.) for, Anzo, my son ?" His reply that he has this or that is equally pointless. When asked why he left his sweetheart Anzo says, "Here is a red hot iron will broil a bone". Finally the mother wants to know what
he'll have for supper, and his reply, "Make me a little breely broth soup" is a consistent close. No mention is made of Anzo's having been poisoned.

Other deviations and corruptions of note are: i. Shoemaker, Mt Mnstly, 145 prints a footnote indicating that the Type E version from Pennsylvania has a funeral and a bequest for an unborn child. 2. The Flanders, Ft F-S Bids, 197 text has the lad give nothing at all to his mother and "hell, etc." to the sweetheart, which might possibly be a transfer of the Edward theme of maternal instigation through the similarity of endings. However, it is just as likely not. 3. Niles, Bins Lv Sgs Tgc Lgds, 14 prints a version that has the final request of "Randal" that he be laid at his grandfather's son (probably uncle here) ? s side.

Taylor, Mod Phil, XXIX, 105 points out that the hunting in the greenwood and the meeting the true-love are incompatible and suggests the former is a contamination that occurred in Britain, possibly from The King's Dochter Lady Jean. This contamination then has become deeply rooted in 12.

For remarks on the relationship of this ballad to Billy Boy see Linscott, F-S Old NE, 1 66 and Sharp, 100 English Folk-Songs, p. xxxiv. For an analysis of a South Atlantic States "poor buckra" text see C. E. Means, Outlook, Sept. 1899, 121. Jane Zielonko, Some American Variants of Child Ballads, 41 ff . discusses a number of American texts in great detail.

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About the Commonest British Ballads by Bertrand H. Bronson
Journal of the International Folk Music Council, Vol. 9 (1957), pp. 22-27

"Lord Randal" holds a position of virtually equal security in the folk memory. Here, too, is a story of murderous passion, though in the present case we do not know what has led to the fatal act, which is doubtless more deliberate. But the question of motives is none of the ballad's business; and there is little sign that any singer has ever inquired. What we see clearly is that Lord Randal returns home from a love-tryst with an assurance that death is upon him, and that he has been poisoned by his love. The narrative is conducted thenceforward by means of the "legacy" convention; but it would be an unmerited compliment to speak in this case of a "climax of relatives." Which relative comes before which in the distribution of bequests is a matter of complete indifference. The device is not used dramatically, and is only a means of extending the song. The fatal secret is out, at latest, as soon as we learn the nature of Randal's repast in the wildwood. Strictly regarded, the only suspense in the narrative lies in our having to wait through the list of insignificant bequests to learn what is bequeathed to the murderess. Here, one feels, even more than in "Barbara Allan," narrative interest could hardly be more slackly sustained.

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Songs from Cumberland & Northumberland
by Frank Kidson, Lucy E. Broadwood, A. G. Gilchrist, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Cecil J. Sharp
Journal of the Folk-Song Society, Vol. 3, No. 10 (1907), pp. 39-46

The occasional occurrence of the name "King Henry" in the ballad more commonly known as "Lord Rendal" is perhaps due to a reminiscence of Henry I's death from eating a dish of lanmpreys, on lhis return from a hunting expedition. It seems quite possible that a story arose that the dish had been tampered with, or that the "lampreys" were euphemistically named, and hence that the king died of poison, not simple gluttony. A somewhat similar poisoning circumstance in connection with the death of King John is recorded in the old clhronicle which relates that a certain monk poisoned, with the venom from a toad, a wassail-cup, of which the king drank and thereafter swelled and died. See Scott's Bordler Minstrelsy, note to " Lord Rendal."
It is also imaginable that the "King Henry " referred to may have been the "Young King Henry" who was crowned in the lifetime of his father, Henry II, and died of "a violent fever and flix" while fighting against him, in France. There is a possibility that poison was suspected in his case, also; but it seems much more likely that the person who first introduced the name of Henry into the ballad had in mind the monarch who succumbed to the dish of lampreys.

While the poisoning story itself was probably current in Europe at an early period, the following suggestions may be offered as to the reason why the name "Lord Rendal" should be traditionally connected with the ballad in England and Scotland:

(1). - Randal III, sixth Earl of Chester, ii8i, (died 1232) divorced his first wife, Constance, widow of Geoffrey Plantagenet, and married again, " for which sin, as many men suppose, this Ranulph [Randal] deserved to dye without issuie and to relinquish
his honors unto the sonne of his sister." [The quotation is taken from The Catalogue of Hontor, 1610, an old peerage in the writer's possession].

(2). - He was succeeded by his nephew John, whose wife "was infamous for plotting to take away the life of her husband John by poison."-[Ibid.]

(a). - Following upon a contemporary belief that Randal left no heir because of his sin in divorcing his first wife and re-marrying, may there not have arisen the story that a young son and heir, child of the second wife, was poisoned by his " stepmother" (i.e. the divorced Constance) at her own house, returning to his mother to die? (This would explain the "Wee Croodlin' Doo" form of the story, with its conjunction of "stepmother " and "nammy," though, at the same time, the "mammy"
of the nursery version may simply have been the child's foster-mother or nurse).

If, when the real circumstances had somewhat faded from memory, people wished to find a romantic reason for the fact of Randal III's leaving no heir and the earldom thus passing to his nephew, a divine judgment might be the explanation offered by
the priest and the scholar, but the common folk would, I think, be much more likely to seek a human agent in the first wife, dishonoured, jealous, and revengeful, and thus to attach to Randal an already existing ballad-story. (It will be remembered that
Constance's own son, Prince Arthur, had been done to death).

(b). - The fact, or story, that Randal's nephew and successor to the title was poisoned by his own wife may later have become attached to Randal himself by confusion with the (presumptive) poisoning legend about Randal's young son and heir. These suggestions do not, of course, interfere with the circumstance of the Lord Randal story being current in Italy or other countries at a much earlier date. They merely aim at explaining why the hero should be called Lord Randal in the English form of the ballad. (See Chappell's Popular Music, p. 10, for an account of the services English minstrels rendered to Randal, when besieged in I2I2. This (or another) Randal seems to have been early a popular hero, for Longland describes his Friar as much better acquainted with the "rimes of Robinhode and of Randal, erle of Chester," than with his Paternoster)- A. G. G.

Cf. this beautiful tune with "The Trees they do grow high" noted in Sussex by Dr. Vaughan Williams. (Jourual, Vol. ii, No. 8, p. 2o6). For copious variants, and notes on the ancient ballad, see Child's Eniglish and Scottisl Ballads. Child gives two distinct tunes to 'Lord Rendal.' For other tunes and references see Journal, Vol. II, No. 6, and Folk Sonigs fronit Sommerset, Ist series.-L. E. B.

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Wiki: "Lord Randall", or "Lord Randal"

(Roud 10, Child 12) is an Anglo-Scottish border ballad,[1] a traditional ballad consisting of dialogue.[2] The different versions follow the same general lines: the primary character (in this case Randall, but varying by location) is poisoned, usually by his sweetheart; this is revealed through a conversation where he reports on the events and the poisoner.[3] Variants of this ballad are found in Danish, German, Magyar, Swedish and Wendish.[4] Similar ballads exist across Europe. There are, for example different Italian versions, usually titled "L'avvelenato" ("The Poisoned Man") or "Il testamento dell'avvelenato" ("The Poisoned Man's Will"). One of them was published for the first time in 1629 by Camillo il Bianchino, in Verona.[5]

Cultural uses
The English fiction writer Dorothy L. Sayers used a phrase from some variants for the title Strong Poison, a murder mystery about a man apparently murdered by his lover. In the early 1960s Bob Dylan uses the song's form as an allusion in "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall". Dylan's ballad, however, utilizes the answer to spell out an apocalyptic fall of hard rain.

The nursery rhyme "Billy Boy" borrows the verse structure and the narrative format about a suitor visiting his lover, with a happier ending.

The poem is a repeated allusion in the novel The Catcher in the Rye by J D Salinger.

In the novel Sweet Thursday by John Steinbeck, the character Mack quotes the recurring phrase of the poem while lying defeated in his bed.

Covers
Cecil Sharp's arrangement of "Lord Rendal" was recorded by the Russian tenor Vladimir Rosing in the mid-1920s on Vocalion (A0167).
The folk singer Buffy Sainte-Marie included it on her 1967 album Fire & Fleet & Candlelight.
A version by Harry Belafonte appears on his album All Time Greatest Hits - Vol. 2.
New York jig-punk band The Prodigals covered it on their 2001 album Dreaming in Hell's Kitchen.[6]
There is also cover by russian folk rock band Melnitsa on their 1996 album "lunar day"
Scottish folk-singer Emily Smith includes a version entitled "Lord Donald" in her album "Traiveller's Joy" (2011)

References
1.^ Border Ballads By William Beattie, Compiled by William Beattie, Published by Penguin Books, 1952, Page 17
2.^ Francis James Child, English and Scottish Popular Ballads, "Lord Randal"
3.^ Francis James Child, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, v 1, p 153, Dover Publications, New York 1965
4.^ Francis James Child, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, v 1, p 153-5, Dover Publications, New York 1965
5.^ Alessandro D'Ancona, La poesia popolare italiana, Livorno, 1878, Cf. "L'avvelenato"
6.^ http://www.covermesongs.com/2010/08/the-prodigals-lord-randall.html
A version of "Lord Randal" is included on Martin Carthy's 1972 album, Shearwater.

External links
http://www.contemplator.com/child/rendal.html
A painting of the poisoning of Jimmy Randall appears on Kentucky artist and ballad singer Daniel Dutton's web site: "Ballads of the Barefoot Mind"
Italian version "L'avvelenato"
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Mainly Norfolk:

Lord Randall / What Had You for Supper / Buried in Kilkenny
[Roud 10; Child 12; Ballad Index C012; trad.]

Lord Randall is an Anglo-Scottish border ballad built in the form of a dialogue. The different versions follow the same general lines, the primary character (in this case Randall, but varying by location) is poisoned, usually by his sweetheart. This is revealed through a conversation where he reports on the events and the poisoner. Variants of this ballad are found all over Europe.

Ewan MacColl's singing of Lord Randall is the very first track of the massive eight-record Riverside series of Child ballads, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, first published in 1956.

Martin Carthy sang Lord Randall on his 1972 album, Shearwater; this recording was also included on his anthology Carthy Chronicles. He recorded a different version in 1979 for his album Because It's There which was reissued in 1993 on The Collection. Martin Carthy commented in the first album's sleeve notes:

Lord Randall and John Blunt must be among the more widespread story-ideas in the folk consciousness, the stories remaining more or less the same and varying according to locale and-or the individual imagination of whoever sings them. [...] I have to thank Phil and Sid of Edinburgh for the original idea which led me recasting the tune sung to Lord Randall, known as My Wee Croodlin' Doo.

Steve Winick commented in the sleeve notes of The Collection:

Lord Randall is one of the most widely-known ballads in the English-speaking world, and indeed the plot is common to much of western Europe. This version, which Martin learned “virtually by accident”, comes originally from Sonny Ryan and is a rather compressed one in which the unfortunate boy knows his fate from the beginning, rendering unnecessary the song's usual progress through various clues to a dark revelation. It is a superb example of Martin's passionate unaccompanied singing of the old ballads.

Tony Rose sang this ballad as Lord Rendal on his 1976 LP On Banks of Green Willow. He commented in the album notes:

Lord Rendal is the classic food-poisoning balled, dedicated here to the crisp eaters of Britain's folk clubs. This version is from Mrs. Louie Hooper of Hambridge, Somerset, via Cecil Sharp, neither of whom had that particular problem to contend with.

Peter Bellamy recorded Lord Randall in 1985 for his album Second Wind. According to his sleeve notes he learned it from a Ewan MacColl recording:

Tbe search for authentic blues recordings—not too easy in Norfolk around 1959—brought me my first contact with British Isles traditional music. An American anthology LP was borrowed from a school mate because it contained a track by Reverend Gary Davis, but there with it was Something Completely Different: someone called Ewan MacColl was singing Lord Randall, learned from his mother, Betsy Miller. A new world opened up; the high drama of the performance of this dark mediaeval tale grabbed me, literaly by the throat, and never let me go. A pilgrimage to the Singers' Club in 1962 or '63 brought me face to face with the man himself, and I can't deny that the impression he made has been a major influence on my approach to performance unto the present.

Bob Johnson collated and adapted the words of Lord Randall and sang it on Steeleye Span's album of 1998, Horkstow Grange. He commented in the sleeve notes:

The entire song consists of a tense dialogue between Lord Randall and his mother, during which dawns the awful realisation that he has been poisoned by his lover and is going to die. But why did she poison him? Why is his mother's questioning so quick and skilful at reaching the diagnosis? Did she collude with his girlfriend? Why is Lord Randall so ready to give up and die? Is it the knowledge of the betrayal that has removed his will to live? We don't know; Lord Randall doesn't know and he doesn't care. He is sick to the heart and he just wants to lie down.

The Witches of Elswick sang Lord Randal—with verses starting quite similar to Tony Rose's—in 2003 on their first album, Out of Bed, and they dryly commented:

Bry convinced our friend Colin that this was a true story about someone she knew called “Lord Randal”, even down to the exploding bloodhound (that doesn't appear in our version). It is, in fact, one of the Child ballads learnt from the singing of Bram Taylor.

Cara recorded the ballad under the title Poisoned Peas for their second album, In Between Times, and later on their 2008 DVD In Full Swing - Live. In the first album's notes they cite Martin Carthy's Shearwater arrangement in 7/8 as their inspiration and they use nearly the same lyrics as he.

 
Jon Boden sang Lord Randal as the August 27, 2010 entry of his project A Folk Song a Day.

Compare to all these versions Maddy Prior's song What Had You for Supper? with “modernised” lyrics on her album Year. She commented in her liner notes:

“I've altered the lyrics of this attractive Irish version of Lord Randall to give it an extra kick of relevance. Poison in small quantities can be healing, in gross mass is dangerous stuff.

I heard this version of Lord Randall from the singing of Paddy Reilly and he called it Buried in Kilkenny.”

Maddy Prior and June Tabor sang the just mentioned Buried in Kilkenny live at Burnley Mechanics in October 1988. This live recording was included in 2005 on the first CD of June Tabor's anthology Always.

Lyrics
Martin Carthy sings Lord Randall on Shearwater
“Where have ye been all the day, my own dear darling boy?
Where have ye been all the day, my own dear comfort and joy?”
“I have been to my stepmother, make my bed mummy do,
Make my bed mummy do.”

“What did she give you for your supper, …?”
“I got fish and I got broth, …”

“Where did she get the fish that she give you?”
“Hedges sought and ditches caught.”

“What did you do with your fishbones?”
“I gave them to my greyhound.”

“Tell me what did your greyhound do?”
“There he swelled and there he died.”

“I fear that she does you deadly wrong.”
“She took me in but she did me slay.”

“What will you leave to your mother?”
“I'll leave you me house and land.”

“What will you leave your stepmother, my own dear darling boy?
What will you leave your stepmother, my own dear comfort and joy?”
“Bind her with rope and there let her hang with the halter that hangs on the tree
For poisoning of me.”

Martin Carthy sings Lord Randall on Because It's There
“Where've you been all the day now, my own dear darling boy?
Where've you been all the day now, my dear comfort and my joy?”
“I have been to my sweetheart, mother, make my bed soon,
For I'm sick to my heart and I want to lie down.”

“What'd she give you for your supper, …?”
“I got eels and strong poison, …”

“What happened to your two dogs?”
“Oh they cried and they died there.”

“What'll you leave your mother?”
“All my gold and my silver.”

“What'll you do with your farmlands?”
“I will leave them to the wild things.”

“What'll you give your sweetheart, my own dear darling boy?
What'll you give your sweetheart, my dear comfort and my joy?”
“Oh the rope and the halter that do hang on yonder tree
And there let her hang for the poisoning of me.”

Tony Rose sings Lord Rendal
“Where have you been, Rendal my son?
Where have you been, my sweet pretty one?”
“I've been to my sweetheart's, mother make my bed soon,
For I'm sick to my heart and fain would like down.”

“What did she give you, …?”
“She gave me some eels, …”

“What colour were they?”
“All spickled and speckled.”

“Where did she get them?”
From hedges, from ditches.”

“Where are your greyhounds?”
They swelled and they died.”

“I fear you were poisoned.”
Yes I'm poisoned.”

Steeleye Span sing Lord Randall
“O where have you been, Lord Randall, my son?
Where have you been, my handsome young man?”

“I've been to the wild wood, mother, and I want to lie down.
I met with my true love, mother, make my bed soon.”
“And what did she give you?”
“She gave me some supper and I'm -

Chorus
Sick, sick, weary and tired,
Sick to the heart and I want to lie down”.
“O what did you eat, Lord Randall, my son?
What did you eat, my handsome young man?”

“She gave me some eels, mother, fried in a pan,
They were streaked and striped, mother, make my bed soon.”
“And where did they come from?”
“They came from the ditches.”
“And what got your leavings?”
“My hawks and my greyhounds.”
“And what did they do then?”
“They laid down and died and I'm -

Chorus

“O what will you do, Lord Randall, my son?
What will you do, my handsome young man?”

“I fear I am poisoned, mother, make my bed soon.
Down in the churchyard, mother, and lay me down easy,
For I've been to the wild wood and I met with my true love.”
“And what did you eat there?”
“Eels in a pan.”
“And what was their colour?”
“All streaked and striped.”
“And where did they come from?”
“My father's black ditches.”
“And what got the leavings?”
“My hawks and my greyhounds.”
“And what did they do then?”
“They laid down and died.”
“Oh, I fear you are poisoned.”
“Make my bed soon.”
“And where shall I make it?”
“Down in the churchyard.”
“Down in the churchyard.”
“And lay me down easy for I'm -

The Witches of Elswick sing Lord Randal
“Oh, where have you been, Randal my son?
Oh, where have you been, my sweet pretty one?”
“I've been to my sweetheart's, mother make my bed soon,
For I'm sick to my heart and fain would like down.”

“Oh, what did she give you, …?”
“She gave me some eels, …”

“Oh, where did she get them?”
“From the hedges and ditches.”

“Oh, what colour were they?”
“They were spickled and speckled.”

“Oh, they were strong poison, Randal my son,
Oh, they were strong poison, my sweet pretty one.
You'll die, you'll die, Randal my son,
You will die, you will die, my sweet littile one.”

“What will you leave your fatker?”
“My land and my houses.”

“What will you leave your mother?”
“My gold and my silver.”

“What will you leave your lover, Randal my son?
What will you leave your lover, my sweet pretty one?”
“A rope for to hang her, mother make my bed soon,
For I'm sick to my heart and fain would like down,
For I'm sick to my heart and fain would like down.”

Cara sing Poisoned Peas
“Where have you been to all the day, my own dear darling boy?
Where have you been to all the day, my own dear comfort and joy?”
“I have been to my stepmother, make my bed mummy do,
Make my bed mummy do.”

“What did you get for your supper, …?”
“I got fish and I got broth, …”

“Where did she get the fish she gave you?”
“Hedges sought them, ditches caught them.”

“What did you do with your fish bones?”
“I gave them to my greyhound.”

“Tell me, what did your greyhound do?”
“There he swelled and there he died.”

“I fear that she did you deadly wrong!”
“She took me in, she did me slay.”

“What would you leave to your mother?”
“I'll leave her my house and land.”

“What would you leave to your stepmother, my own dear darling boy?
What would you leave to your stepmother, my own dear comfort and joy?”
“Let her hang all on a tree for poisoning of me,
Poisoning of me!”

Maddy Prior and June Tabor sing Buried in Kilkenny
“What had you for your dinner now, my own darling boy?
Oh, what had you for your dinner, my comfort and my joy?”
“I had bread, beef, and cold poisson, mother, dress my bed soon,
I have a pain in my heart and wouldn't I long to lie down.”

“What will you leave your father …?”
“I will leave him a coach and four horses, …”

“What will you leave your mother?”
“I will leave her the keys of all treasure.”

“What will you leave your children?”
“They can follow their mother.”

“Where will you be buried now, my own darling boy?”
Oh, where will you now be buried, my comfort and my joy?”
“I will be buried in Kilkenny, there I'll take a long, nice sleep,
With a stone to my head and a scraith to my feet.”

Maddy Prior sings What Had You for Supper?
“What had you for your supper, my own darling boy?
What had you for your supper, my comfort and my joy?”
“I had fish all from the Irish sea, mother make my bed soon,
For I'm sick to my heart and I fain would lie down.”

“What will you leave your wife, my own darling boy?
What will you leave your wife, my comfort and my joy?”
“I will leave her with compensation, she can fight for it when I'm gone,
For I'm sick to my heart and I fain would lie down.”

“What will you leave your son, my own darling boy?
What will you leave your son, my comfort and my joy?”
“I will leave him my job at Sellafield so that he won't need to sign on,
For I'm sick to my heart and I fain would lie down.”

Links and Acknowledgements
See also the Mudcat Café thread Lyr Req: Lord Randall.

Transcribed from Martin Carthy's singing by Garry Gillard. The lyrics to Buried in Kilkenny were transcribed by me first but later compared to what Paddy Reilly sings on the CD From Puck to Appleby.