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1972 is meant to give an indication of the vitality of ballad singing in the last sixteen years.
In the table below (Table I), additional versions recorded before 1972 are numbered under
"corrections" (COIT.); those recorded after 1972 are numbered under "additions."
Reported Versions Listed in order of Child Type Numbers
Table }I
lliJ! 1972 COIT. add. 1988
Ch 2 [IJ 3 [I) 3
4 5 -I 4
7 2 2
10 tlJ 2 3
14 [IJ 6 6
17 4 5
20 12 +2 (+2) 16
26 3 3
45 I 1
46 3 3
49 3 3
53 8 (+1) 4 12
54 2 3+[11 5
73 4 4
74 5 5
77 13j 21 +1 6+[2]+11 ) 28
78 6 +3 [IJ+[1 ) 10
81 [1] 6 2+[11 8
83 1 I
84 [I] 10 +1-2 1+[11+[1 ) 10
85 2 2
93 10 4+[11+?2 14
100 [2] 12 +1+[1] 3+[11 16
105 2 2
110 3 3
112 [I] 5
155 1
I [] indicates a number of versions fe-recorded from the same singers; (} indicates a version
thaI had already been recorded from the same singer before 1972; 0 refers to a number of
versions mentioned by Karpclcs but untraceable either in her published collection or in
her available papers and recordings. None of the versions between brackets arc counted
in the total number of versions given under 1972 and the 1988 columns.
2Dr. Rosenberg kindly informs me of a Labrador version published in MJ.C. Hodgllrt, The
Ballads (New York: Norton, 1962) 97-102; Hodgart accounts for it as a composite version
edited by A.L. Lloyd, Contemporary Verse and Prose (July 1936). This fllct coming to my
knowledge in the week preceding the submission of this manuscript, I cannot access this
source so as to identify the versions concerned here, only suggest that Lloyd's thirty·rour
stanza composite version shows no directly observable linguistic affinity with any of the
versions compiled above. So, here and hereafter the "?" accompanies the total number of
identified versions.