Roud 237: Bessy Bell & Mary Gray (64 listings)
BESSIE BELL AND MARY GRAY
Source Keith, Last Leaves of Traditional Ballads pp.129-130 (version a)
Performer Anderson, Mrs.
Place collected Scotland : Aberdeenshire : New Deer
Collector Greig, Gavin
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BESSIE BELL AND MARY GRAY
Source Keith, Last Leaves of Traditional Ballads pp.129-130 (version b)
Performer Gillespie, Mrs.
Place collected Scotland : Aberdeenshire
Collector Greig, Gavin
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BESSY BELL AND MARY GRAY
Source Herd, Ancient & Modern Scottish Songs (1869/1973 edn.) 1 pp.199-200
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Place collected Scotland
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BESSY BELL AND MARY GREY
Source Fowke, Ring Around the Moon p.88
Performer Goldenberg, Mrs.
Place collected Canada
Collector Fowke, Edith
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BETSY BELL
Source Percy Grainger Collection (O'Brien Index No.249)
Performer Spencer, Mr.
Place collected England : Lincolnshire : Scotter
Collector Grainger, Percy
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NANCY GREY AND BETSY GREY
Source Polwarth, Folk Songs from the North p.40
Performer Elliott, Mrs. Em
Place collected England : Durham : Birtley
Collector Polwarth, Gwen & Mary
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TWO BONNIE LASSIES
Source Edith Fowke Coll. (FO 77)
Performer Goldenberg, Mrs. A.
Place collected Canada : Ontario : Toronto
Collector Fowke, Edith
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BESSIE BELL AND MARY GRAY
Source Ford, Song Histories (1900) pp.142-149
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Place collected Scotland
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BESSIE BELL AND MARY GRAY
Source Ford, Harp of Perthshire (1893) pp.46-48
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Place collected Scotland
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BESSIE BELL AND MARY GRAY
Source Lane: Catalogue..Chapbooks & Broadsides..Harvard College No.653
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BESSY BELL
Source Vocal Library (1820) p.293
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BESSY BELL AN MARY GRAY
Source Montgomerie, Scottish Nursery Rhymes (1946) p.113
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Place collected Scotland
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BESSY BELL AND MARY GRAY
Source Lane: Catalogue..Chapbooks & Broadsides..Harvard College No.786
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BESSY BELL AND MARY GRAY
Source The Masque (New Edn. c1785) p.183
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BESSY BELL AND MARY GRAY
Source Pocket Songster or Caledonian Warbler (1823) pp.155-156
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BESSY BELL AND MARY GRAY
Source Model Song Book 2 (c1848) p.390
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ALL IN THE DOWNS
Source Edinburgh Musical Miscellany (1792) pp.273-275
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BESSIE BELL AND MARY GRAY
Source Gainer, Folk Songs from the West Virginia Hills p.74
Performer Myers, Ivy Lee
Place collected USA : West Virginia : Gilmer County
Collector Gainer, Patrick W.
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BESSIE BELL AND MARY GRAY
Source Cox, Folk-Songs of the South p.134
Performer Hughes, Mrs Elmira
Place collected USA : West Virginia : Spencer
Collector Hughes, Eva
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BESSIE BELL AND MARY GRAY
Source Graham, Songs of Scotland (1853-1854) 2 pp.96-97
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Place collected Scotland
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BESSIE BELL AND MARY GRAY
Source Lyric Gems of Scotland 2 (1856) p.145
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Place collected Scotland
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BESSIE BELL AND MARY GRAY
Source Moore, Ballads & Folk Songs of the Southwest pp.100-101
Performer McPherson, James
Place collected USA : Oklahoma : Tulsa
Collector Moore, Ethel & Chauncey O.
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BESSIE BELL AND MARY GRAY
Source Greig-Duncan Collection 6 p.498
Performer Anderson, Mrs.
Place collected Scotland
Collector Greig, Gavin
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BESSIE BELL AND MARY GRAY
Source Sharpe, A Ballad Book pp.62-63 / Stevenson, Choice Old Scottish Ballads
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BESSIE BELL AND MARY GRAY
Source Davis, Traditional Ballads of Virginia (1929) pp.432-434 (version a)
Performer Grinnan, Miss G.B.
Place collected USA : Virginia : University
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BESSIE BELL AND MARY GRAY
Source Davis, Traditional Ballads of Virginia (1929) pp.432-434 (version c)
Performer Fleming, Robert
Place collected USA : Virginia : Norton
Collector Stone, John
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BESSIE BELL AND MARY GRAY
Source Davis, Traditional Ballads of Virginia (1929) pp.432-434 (version d)
Performer Coleman, Mrs. G.P.
Place collected USA : Virginia : Williamsburg
Collector Stone, John
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BESSIE BELL AND MARY GRAY
Source Aytoun, Ballads of Scotland 2 (1858) pp.361-363
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Place collected Scotland
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BESSIE BELL AND MARY GRAY
Source Whitelaw, Book of Scottish Song (1845) p.362
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Place collected Scotland
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BESSIE BELL AND MARY GRAY
Source Scarborough, Song Catcher in Southern Mountains (1937) pp.190-191
Performer Ball, Grandma
Place collected USA : Virginia : Buchanan County
Collector Scarborough, Dorothy
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BESSIE BELL AND MARY GRAY
Source Chambers, The Scottish Ballads (1829) pp.146-147
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Place collected Scotland
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BESSY BELL AND MARY GRAY
Source Ratcliffe: Bibliotheck 4:3-4 (1961) item no.75
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BESSY BELL AND MARY GRAY
Source Ratcliffe: Bibliotheck 4:3-4 (1961) item no.136
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BESSY BELL AND MARY GRAY
Source Thomson: Newcastle Chapbooks index item no.42
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BESSY BELL AND MARY GRAY
Source Scottish Minstrel (edn. A, c1811) pp.62-64
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BESSY BELL AND MARY GRAY
Source Johnson, Scots Musical Museum 2 p.134 (No.128)
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Place collected Scotland
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BESSY BELL AND MARY GRAY
Source Greig-Duncan Collection 6 pp.497-498 (version a)
Performer Gillespie, Mrs. Margaret
Place collected Scotland
Collector Duncan, James B.
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BESSY BELL AND MARY GRAY
Source Greig-Duncan Collection 6 pp.497-498 (version b)
Performer Robertson, Miss Bell
Place collected Scotland
Collector Greig, Gavin
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BESSY BELL AND MARY GRAY
Source Chambers, Songs of Scotland Prior to Burns pp.319-321
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Place collected Scotland
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BESSY BELL AND MARY GRAY
Source Coffin, Brit. Trad. Ballad in N. America (1977 edn.) pp.123, 256-257
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BESSY BELL AND MARY GRAY
Source St. Cecilia (1779) pp.207-208
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BESSY BELL AND MARY GRAY
Source Child, Vol.4 pp. 75-77 (No.201)
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Place collected Scotland
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BESSY BELL AND MARY GRAY
Source Pinkerton, Select Scotish Ballads 2 (1783) pp.115-116
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Place collected Scotland
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BESSY BELL AND MARY GRAY
Source Kinsley, Oxford Book of Ballads (1969 edn.) pp.617-618
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BESSY BELL AND MARY GRAY
Source Opie, Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (1951) pp.71-72
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BESSY BELL AND MARY GRAY
Source Friedmann, Penguin Book of Folk Ballads p.302
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Place collected Scotland
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BESSY BELL AND MARY GRAY
Source Halliwell, Nursery Rhymes of England (Bodley Head reprint of c1870 edn.) p.190
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Place collected England
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BESSY BELL AND MARY GRAY
Source A Collection of Old Ballads (1725) 3 pp.243-244
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BESSY BELL AND MARY GRAY
Source Gilchrist, Scottish Songs Ancient & Modern (1865) pp.104-105
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Place collected Scotland
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BESSY BELL AND MARY GRAY
Source Thomson, Orpheus Caledonius (1733) 1 pp.3-4
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Place collected Scotland
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BESSY BELL AND MARY GRAY
Source Smith, Scotish Minstrel (1st edn. (1820-24) & 4th edn.) 4 p.21
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Place collected Scotland
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BETSEY BELL AND MARY GRAY
Source Davis, Traditional Ballads of Virginia (1929) pp.432-434 (version b)
Performer Tabb, Miss Jennie
Place collected USA : Virginia : Farmville
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NANCY GREY AND BETSY GREY
Source Folkways FG 3565 / XTRA 1091 (`The Elliotts of Birtley')
Performer Elliott, Reece
Place collected England : Co. Durham : Birtley
Collector Seeger, Peggy / MacColl. Ewan
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BESSIE BELL AND MARY GREY
Source WPA Collection, Univ. of Virginia, Charlotteville, No.86 (version a)
Performer Hensley, Mamie
Place collected USA : Virginia : Bridgetown
Collector Morton, Susan R.
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BESSY BELL AND MARY GRAY
Source Musical Miscellany 1 (1729) pp.158-160
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BETSY BELL AND MARY GRAY
Source WPA Collection, Univ. of Virginia, Charlotteville, No.86 (version b)
Performer Wooding, Nancy C.
Place collected USA : Virginia : Danville
Collector Scales, Bessie A.
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BESSY BELL AND MARY GRAY
Source Halliwell, Nursery Rhymes of England (1842) pp.36-37
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Place collected England
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BESSY BELL AND MARY GRAY
Source Halliwell, Nursery Rhymes & Nursery Tales of England (5th edn. c1870) p.97
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Place collected England
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BESSIE BELL AND MARY GRAY
Source Lucy Broadwood MSS (Vaughan Williams Memorial Library) LEB/4/47
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Collector Collyer, Miss
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BESSIE BELL AND MARY GRAY
Source Lucy Broadwood MSS (Vaughan Williams Memorial Library) LEB/4/47
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Collector Collyer, Miss
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BESSIE BELL AND MARY GRAY
Source Lucy Broadwood MSS (Vaughan Williams Memorial Library) LEB/4/48
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Collector Collyer, Miss
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BETSY BELL
Source Percy Grainger MSS Collection (Hektograph copies at VWML) No.249
Performer Spencer, Mr.
Place collected England : Lincolnshire : Scotter
Collector Grainger, Percy
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BESSY BELL AN' MARY GRAY
Source Lyle, Ancient Ballads and Songs (1827) pp.160-161
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Place collected Scotland : Perthshire
Collector Lyle, Thomas
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BESSIE BELL AND MARY GRAY
Source James Madison Carpenter MSS Collection (American Folklife Center, Library of Congress / VWML, London) p.04366
Performer Duncan, Miss Bell
Place collected Scotland : Aberdeenshire : Lambhill
Collector Carpenter, James Madison
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