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GINNY GENEVASee full record

My name it is young Ginny Geneva, being a girl of high degree

Guidance: Gordon Hall's self-recorded cassette

Roud number218
PerformerHall, Gordon
Place Pease Pottage, West Sussex, England
Date1990c
Source 'Warts & Hall' homemade cassettes
Broad CategorySong
FormatSound recording

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JEALOUSYSee full record

'Twas of a young couple walked out together

Guidance: Manuscript in the VWML, available on the EFDSS's FULL ENGLISH website. Click on the URL icon to view

Roud number218
PerformerLawrence, Mr. E.
Place Midhurst, West Sussex, England
Date1912 (1/3 Jan)
Source Clive Carey MSS (VWML) Sx 150 / nb 5/2
FormatManuscript

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Down in Oxford city, the truth to you I now will tell

Guidance: Field recording from Brian Matthews' collection. Click on the audio icon to play.

Roud number218
PerformerPorter, Sarah
Place Sussex, England
Date1961c
Source Brian Matthews Collection ('Woody' tape)
FormatSound recording

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.. Maria and me [ ? ]

Guidance: Field recording from Brian Matthews' collection. Click on the audio icon to play.

Roud number218
PerformerPorter, Sarah
Place Sussex, England
Date1961c
Source Brian Matthews Collection ('Woody' tape)
FormatSound recording

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OXFORD CITYSee full record

On yonder hill stood young Maria

Guidance: Click on the page icon to see the relevant page from this book

Roud number218
PerformerFuller, Louise (Louie) (Mrs. Saunders)
Place Lingfield, Surrey, England
Date1960
Source Stubbs, Life of a Man (1970) p.59
FormatBook

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OXFORD CITYSee full record

It was of a fair maid in Oxford city

Roud number218
PerformerMaynard, George `Pop'
Place Copthorne, West Sussex, England
Source Journal of English Folk Dance & Song Society 9:4 (1963) pp.194-195
Broad CategorySong
FormatJournal

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It's of a fair maid in Oxford city

Guidance: Folktracks (Folktrax) albums no longer available, but copies can be heard at the VWML. Kennedy's original recordings now in the British Library.

Roud number218
PerformerMaynard, George `Pop'
Place Copthorne, West Sussex, England
Date1955 (3 Dec)
Source Folktracks FSA 60 080 (`Rumpsy Bumpsy')
Broad CategorySong
FormatSound recording

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He saw her dancing with another

Guidance: Folktracks (Folktrax) albums no longer available, but copies can be heard at the VWML. Kennedy's original recordings now in the British Library.

Roud number218
PerformerTester, Scan
Place Horsted Keynes, East Sussex, England
Date1963
Source Folktracks FSA 085 (`The Man in the Moon')
FormatSound recording

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In Oxford City there lived a fair one

Roud number218
PerformerVerrall, Mrs. Harriet
Place Monk's Gate, West Sussex, England
Date1904 (2 Dec)
Source Journal of the Folk-Song Society 2 (1906) p.200
FormatJournal

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In Oxford City it was reported, there a fair young damsel did dwell

Guidance: Field recordings made by the BBC in the 1950s are not generally available, although some have been issued on commercial recordings. Copies can be heard at the VWML.

Roud number218
PerformerAttrill, George
Place Fittleworth, West Sussex, England
Date1954 (25/26 Nov)
Source BBC recording 22738
Broad CategorySong
FormatSound recording

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