Jone o' Greenfield's Ramble

DESCRIPTION: "Says Jone to his wife, on a hot summer's day, I'm resolved i' Greenfield no longer to stay." He intends to go to "Owdham" and be a soldier and fight the French. Husband and wife and others discuss their poverty; he bids farewell
AUTHOR: Joseph Lees? (source: Harding-FolkSongsOfLancashire)
EARLIEST DATE: 1846 (Dixon-AncientPoemsBalladsSongsOfThePeasantryOfEngland); Harding-FolkSongsOfLancashire believes it was written in 1805
KEYWORDS: husband wife separation soldier hardtimes
FOUND IN: Britain(England)
REFERENCES (4 citations):
Dixon-AncientPoemsBalladsSongsOfThePeasantryOfEngland, Song #27, pp. 216-218,250, "Jone o' Greenfield's Ramble" (1 text)
Bell-Combined-EarlyBallads-CustomsBalladsSongsPeasantryEngland, pp. 432-434, "Jone o' Greenfield's Ramble" (1 text)
Harding-FolkSongsOfLancashire, pp. 38-39, "John O'Grinfilt's Ramble" (1 text, 1 tune)
Dallas-TheCruelWars-100SoldiersSongs, pp. 21-23, "John of Greenfield" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST BeCo432 (Partial)
Roud #1460
NOTES [47 words]: Harding-FolkSongsOfLancashire, p. 103, has a long paragraph about the authorship of this, but it consists mostly of denials of claims made at one time or another for various people. Harding concludes that Joseph Lees wrote it in 1805, but gives no evidence for this assertion. - RBW
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