Robin Hood's Hill

DESCRIPTION: "Ye bards who extol the gay valleys and glades.... never once mentioned sweet 'Robin Hood's Hill.' "Near Gloucester, it has a view, a clear spring, and good vegetation. Boys and girls sport there. The singer would not trade it for all the riches of Peru
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1877 (Bell-Combined-EarlyBallads-CustomsBalladsSongsPeasantryEngland); said in Notes and Querries to be from an eighteenth century manuscript
KEYWORDS: home money nonballad
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Bell-Combined-EarlyBallads-CustomsBalladsSongsPeasantryEngland, pp. 461-462, "Robin Hood's Hill" (1 text)
ST BeCo461 (Partial)
File: BeCo461

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