Marrow Bones

\nEnglish Folk Songs from the Hammond and Gardiner Manuscripts\n\nMarrow Bones was first published in 1965, drawing on the extensive and largely unpublished folk song collections made by Henry and Robert Hammond and Dr George Gardiner between 1904 and 1909, chiefly in Dorset and Hampshire, which are held in the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library at Cecil Sharp House. It was followed by three more volumes of selections from the manuscripts, edited by Frank Purslow and published by EFDSS in the late 60s and early 70s.\n\nIn 2007 the revised and corrected edition of Marrow Bones was published, which was followed by The Wanton Seed (2015) and Southern Harvest (2017). Southern Harvest is an omnibus volume containing The Constant Lovers and The Foggy Dew which completes the revised series.\n\nThese are songs of comedy and tragedy, of love fulfilled and love denied, of war and peace, of land and sea, of the marvellous and the mundane. Songs both great and small that our ancestors took to their hearts and made part of their lives, which may very well have been lost forever. They are presented here for new generations of singers and musicians. Some are very old, others less so. They world that made them is gone, but they speak to the human condition today just as they did a century and more ago.\n\nSelected and edited by Frank Purslow\nRevised with new notes and commentaries by Malcolm Douglas and Steve Gardham\nBroadside Bibliography by David Atkinson\nBiographical essays by Frank Purslow and Derek Schofield\nForeword by Vic Gammon\n\nIncludes notes on the songs and an index of first lines