English-language nursery rhyme and well-known alliteration tongue-twister. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 19745. The traditional version, as published in...

Herat. The valley around Herat with the Paropamisus Mountains (Selseleh-ye Safēd Kōh) on the right river bank was historically famous for its fertility and...

"When Johnny Comes Marching Home" (Roud 6637), sometimes "When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again", is a song from the American Civil War that expressed...

"Wade in the Water" (Roud 5439) is an African American jubilee song, a spiritual—in reference to a genre of music "created and first sung by African Americans...

Bonnie Banks o' Loch Lomond", or "Loch Lomond" for short, is a Scottish song (Roud No. 9598). The song prominently features Loch Lomond, the largest Scottish...

the film's visuals. Also critical of the film was The Guardian's Richard Roud, who wrote: "In the film the revolution is reduced to a series of rather...

Patrick Spens" is one of the most popular of the Child Ballads (No. 58) (Roud 41), and is of Scottish origin. It is a maritime ballad about a disaster...

the British working class to the seaside were booming. It is catalogued as Roud Folk Song Index No. 32459.[citation needed] It was used as a signature tune...

Bluebells of Scotland is the usual modern name for a Scottish folksong (Roud # 13849). It was written by Dora Jordan, an English actress and writer. First...

Lovely Joan is a traditional English folk song/ballad (Roud #592), and the tune to which it is sung. Its melody was used as the counterpoint tune used...

Paternoster", is an English children's bedtime prayer and nursery rhyme. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 1704. It may have origins in ancient Babylonian...

the Roud Folk Song Index. The ballad clearly places the blame for the wreck on the railroad company for pressuring Steve Broady to exceed a safe speed...

Mischief night". According to Roud (2006), people in Lancashire, Yorkshire and surrounding counties played tricks on May Day Eve. Roud also states that there...

My Bonny Boy is an English folk song (Roud #293) which is featured as the second movement of Ralph Vaughan Williams English Folk Song Suite. Joan Baez...

researcher Steve Roud suggests that the widespread, modern use however derives from a form of tag called "Tiggy Touchwood" in which players are safe from being...

Holiday Traditions" p. 39. Amerisearch, Inc., 2002 Jacqueline Simpson, Steve Roud (2000) "English Folklore". Oxford University Press, 2000 A children's party...

Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0-14-044170-3. "Hedgehogs" in: Simpson, Jacqueline; Roud, Stephen (2000), A Dictionary of English Folklore, Oxford University Press...

Tooth". Folklore. 77 (1): 60–64. doi:10.1080/0015587X.1966.9717030. Steve Roud (2006), "Teeth: disposal of", The Penguin Guide to the Superstitions of Britain...

as a king who rescues his wife from the fairy king. The folk song Orfeo (Roud 136, Child 19) is based on this poem. Sir Orfeo was probably written in the...

The Lark in the Morning (Roud 151) is an English folk song. It was moderately popular with traditional singers in England, less so in Scotland, Ireland...

also known as Down in those valleys below, is a Cornish folk song. The Roud number is 371. According to Robert Bell, who published it in his 1846 Ancient...

 228 Nearing 1948, p. 233 Farson 1978, pp. 14–16 Hole 1951, pp. 61–62, 155 Roud 2009, pp. 60–61 Allen Brown, Reginald (1976) [1954]. Allen Brown's English...

centuries after in the form of a folk song "Bold Nevison the Highwayman" (Roud 1082). The Lincolnshire folk singer Joseph Taylor knew three verses of a...

husband, Jacques Demy, is sometimes grouped with the Left Bank filmmakers). Roud described a distinctive "fondness for a kind of Bohemian life and an impatience...

absorbing couple of hours as they watch a fascinating battle of wits." Richard Roud of The Guardian called it a "first-class commercial film. Commercial is not...

twentieth century. Earlier references appear under different titles ... — Steve Roud: The Lore of the Playground. One of the predecessors of 'Take-down Bulldog'...

in Serbian folklore House blessing Wassailing Simpson, Jacqueline; Steve Roud (2000). "New Year". A Dictionary of English Folklore. Oxford University Press...

songs which remain in the family, including "The Shepherd of the Downs" (Roud 1215) were taught by George Copper to his grandson James ‘Brasser’ Copper...

extend into the reigns of Queen Anne or George I as implied by the lyrics. Roud # 4998. "to turn the cat in the pan". Oxford English Dictionary (Online ed...

pp. 180–181. "The Gaberlunzie Man / The Beggar Man / The Auld Beggarman (Roud 212; Child 279 Appendix; Henry H810)". "The Court of Mary, Queen of Scots"...