Uploaded February 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Another song from Joe Offer's collection.
The information accompanying this song is as follows:
Source: Sabine Baring Gould, 1895, Old English Songs from English Minstrelsie
Notes:
This is taken from the selection of the eight volume work by Baring Gould of the same name, reprinted by Llanerch Publishers.
Notes are not given in the selection, but are in the full eight volume work to which I do not have access. Therefore I can give very little information about the origins of this song.
Again, this is better known as a dance tune from Playford's "English Dancing Master" of 1651 than as a song. In the introduction, Baring Gould says "I have marked with an asterisk those country dances of which the ballad words remain. There are several others to which later words have been set, that have displaced the original words." 'Once I loved a maiden fair' has an asterisk, so the words are - in Baring Gould's view - the original.
Another song from Joe Offer's collection.
The information accompanying this song is as follows:
Source: Sabine Baring Gould, 1895, Old English Songs from English Minstrelsie
Notes:
This is taken from the selection of the eight volume work by Baring Gould of the same name, reprinted by Llanerch Publishers.
Notes are not given in the selection, but are in the full eight volume work to which I do not have access. Therefore I can give very little information about the origins of this song.
Again, this is better known as a dance tune from Playford's "English Dancing Master" of 1651 than as a song. In the introduction, Baring Gould says "I have marked with an asterisk those country dances of which the ballad words remain. There are several others to which later words have been set, that have displaced the original words." 'Once I loved a maiden fair' has an asterisk, so the words are - in Baring Gould's view - the original.
