Uploaded January 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Happy Public Domain Day! This year all musical compositions from 1930 are now in the Public Domain, including this song by Fabian Andre, Wilbur Schwandt and Gus Kahn.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_a_Little_Dream_of_Me
More works which are Public Domain in 2026 listed from Duke University:
https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2026/
Purchase my music:
ozfolklounge.bandcamp.com
Thumbnail painting by Berthe Morisot (1841-1895).
Website (Lyrics and Chords):
folklounge.org/lyrics-and-chords
Happy Public Domain Day! This year all musical compositions from 1930 are now in the Public Domain, including this song by Fabian Andre, Wilbur Schwandt and Gus Kahn.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_a_Little_Dream_of_Me
More works which are Public Domain in 2026 listed from Duke University:
https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2026/
Purchase my music:
ozfolklounge.bandcamp.com
Thumbnail painting by Berthe Morisot (1841-1895).
Website (Lyrics and Chords):
folklounge.org/lyrics-and-chords
![The Bonnie Banks o Fordie [ Child Ballad No. 14 ]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/RRpwsvfm0EI/mqdefault.jpg "The Bonnie Banks o Fordie [ Child Ballad No. 14 ]
Back to my efforts to get Volume 1 of the Francis Child collection recorded this year.
This is variant E in Child:
https://archive.org/details/englishandscotti01chiluoft
As published in George Kinloch:
https://archive.org/details/ancientscottishb01kinl
(with an interesting addtion about the death of Ragnar Lodbrog)
Loudon (not clear why that make him a Robber) is from Lothian, named after the #Arthurian King Lot:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lothian
The photo of the Karna church is by Håkan Svensson Xauxa, from the Wikipedia page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%B6res_d%C3%B6ttrar_i_W%C3%A4nge
The church is related to the Swedish folk song, which is probably the origin of the one collected in the UK.
Woodblock illustration is by Charles Hodge Mackie.
#ChildBallads
Purchase my music:
https://ozfolklounge.bandcamp.com/
Website (Lyrics and Chords):
https://www.folklounge.org/lyrics-and-chords/")
