Miscellaneous
by Frank Kidson, Cecil J. Sharp, A. G. Gilchrist, Lucy E. Broadwood, J. A. Fuller-Maitland, Ralph Vaughan WilliamsSource: Journal of the Folk-Song Society, Vol. 2, No. 9 (1906), pp. 282-299
MISCELLANEOUS
COLLECTED BY FRANK KIDSON
42.-THE OUTLANDISH KNIGHT
FIRST VERSION Noted by Mr. C. Lolley. SUNG AT DRIFFIELD, YORKSHIRE.
SECOND VERSION Noted by F. Kidsont. SUNG AT KNARESBRO', YORKSHIRE.
THIRD VERSION Noted by Mr. G. Rathbone. SUNG IN WESTMORELAND.
The words of all these versions were only fragmentary, and evidently the same as the usual broadside versions. The second version much resembles that in Northumnbrian Minstrelsy; full references and other tunes are in English County Songs,
Traditional Tunes, Northumberland Ministrelsy, etc.-F. K.
For other versions with tunes see " May Colvin, or False Sir John," in Motherwell's Minstrelsy, p. 67, tune No. 24, and a Devonshire version, collected by the Rev. S. Baring Gould, in Eniglish Folk-Songs for Schools, No. I2. I have noted down in Somerset sixteen different versions and variants, including several modal tunes. One of my versions begins: -" There was a knight, a Baron Knight, a Knight of high degree."-C. J. S.