Recordings & Info 72. The Clerk's Twa Sons O Owensford
CONTENTS:
1) Alternative Titles
2) Traditional Ballad Index
3) Child Collection Index
4) Folk Index
ATTACHED PAGES: (see left hand column)
1) Roud Number 3902 (15 Listings)
Alternative Titles
The Clerks o Owsenfoord
The Clerks of Oxenford
The Clerks Two Sons of Oxenfoord
Traditional Ballad Index- The Clerk's Twa Sons O Owensford [Child 72]
NAME: Clerk's Twa Sons o Owsenford, The [Child 72]
DESCRIPTION: The clerk's two sons go to (Paris/Blomsbury/Billsbury/Berwick) to study. They lay with the mayor's two daughters. The mayor condemns them to hang. The clerk comes to buy their freedom but the mayor refuses. He tells his wife they're at a higher school.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1829
KEYWORDS: adultery trial punishment execution lie family children
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber,Bord))
REFERENCES: (6 citations)
Child 72, "The Clerk's Twa Sons o Owsenford" (4 texts)
Bronson 72, "The Clerk's Twa Sons o Owsenford" (2 versions)
Leach, pp. 237-238, "The Clerk's Twa Sons o Owsenford" (1 text)
GreigDuncan8 1931, "Do Weel My Sons" (1 fragment)
PBB 53, "The Clerk's Twa Sons o Owsenford" (1 text)
DBuchan 31, "The Clerk's Twa Sons o Owsenford" (1 text)
Roud #3902
NOTES: Bronson notes that both his tunes have texts mixed with "The Wife of Usher's Well." Since, however, both appear to be composite, there is no proof that the two are related except that both involve sending children away for education (standard practice among the English nobility in the Middle Ages, even if "education" at the time meant training in weapons). - RBW
Child Collection Index
Child Ballad 072: The Clerkâs Twa Sons o Owensford
Child-- Artist --Title-- Album-- Year-- Length-- Have
072 Ewan MacColl The Clerk's Twa Sons O' Owensford Blood and Roses - Vol. 4 1986 6:30 Yes
Folk Index: Clerk's Twa/Two Sons o/of Owensford [Ch 72]
Leach, MacEdward / The Ballad Book, Harper and Row, Bk (1955), p237 [1600s]