Classic English Folk Songs

First published in 1959 as The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs, this groundbreaking collection reclaimed traditional song from the school and the recital room, and from the ‘evening dress’ into which it had so often been put during the first half of the twentieth century.\n\nDrawing on material collected mainly in the early years of that century and originally published in the Journal of The Folk Song Society and its successor the Journal of The English Folk Dance and Song Society, the editors compiled a selection that revealed the vitality and beauty of English folk song in its natural form.\n\nThe book was enormously influential in the folk song revival and was regularly reprinted over some thirty years. The notes to the songs have been revised with much new information, and biographical details of the singers from whom the songs were noted have been added.\n\nSelected and Edited by R Vaughan Williams and A L Lloyd, revised by Malcolm Douglas.\nForeword by Martin Carthy.\n\n