English Folk Songs by Ralph Vaughan Williams

This collection is filled with songs that tell of the pleasures and pains of love, the
patterns of the countryside and the lives of ordinary people. Here are unfaithful
soldiers, ghostly lovers, whalers on stormy seas, cuckolds and tricksters. By turns
funny, plain-speaking and melancholic, these songs evoke a lost world and, with
their melodies provided, record a vital musical tradition.