THE ENGLISH AND SCOTTISH POPULAR BALLADS by FRANCIS JAMES CHILD. [1882-1898]

The ultimate Child ballad etext has yet to be constructed. This etext hence lacks the apparatus and, apparently, some of the variations of the original text, and has some lacunae and glitches. That said, this etext has been assembled from the best available resources on the Internet. This version was built using a Child corpus constructed by Cathy Lynn Preston at the University of Colorado (http://www.colorado.edu/ArtsSciences/CCRH/Ballads/ballads.html). You can also view page images of the 1860 version at the Making of America site at the University of Michigan [External site]: