"Billy Boy" is a traditional folk song and #nurseryRhyme found in the #UnitedStates, in which "#Billy Boy" is asked various questions, and the answers all center on his quest to marry a girl who is said to be too young to leave her mother. It has a #RoudFolkSongIndex number of 326. It is a variant of the traditional #EnglishFolkSong "My Boy Billy", collected by #RalphVaughanWilliams and published by him in 1912 as number 232 in Novello's School Songs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRMkZaFNi6c
Billy Boy

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Nominations please for the "Book of extremely short English folk songs." Penguin never got round to this, so here's a start:

"I'll give you one, oh
Oh no you won't you know."

#folk #folksong #FolkMusic #EnglishfolkSong #bookofextremelyshortenglishfolksongs

The Blacksmith - An Acoustic English Folksong

https://tube.tchncs.de/w/7J5WmyokV8LJH1CEUtxRt5

The Blacksmith - An Acoustic English Folksong

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@Kizzia
I am fond of Derwentwater's Farewell.
I was led to this by an interest in English Jacobites.

Here's one version; I'll link to another in a reply to this toot.
https://youtu.be/Oq3KNCeIQXs?si=kFvMv5aHWlEHz_Oq
#EnglishFolkSong #DerwentwatersFarewell #Northumberland #FavouriteFolkSong

DERWENTWATERS FAREWELL TRADarrr

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