Carpenter, James Madison
Back to collectorsJames Madison Carpenter (1888-1983) was an American Havard graduate who carried out important collecting work in the UK from 1927-1935. His collection is lodged in the Library of Congress in Washington. Further details of his life may be found here.
Songs Collected:
- Outlandish Knight, The
- Wassail Song (Avening)
- Broomfield Hill (Nightingale)
- Mary Made a Pudding
- Sing Ovey, Sing Ivy
- Shrove Tuesday
- Unquiet Grave, The (Tanner)
- Wassail Song (Cherington)
- Barbara Allan (Cobb)
- Wassail Song (Minchinhampton)
- All Through the Drunk
- Froggie would a-Wooing Go
- Sherborne Mummers Song
- Seventeen Come Sunday (Bunting)
- Old Woman Tossed up, The (Bunting)
- Johnny’s so long at the Fair
- American Stranger, The (Bunting)
- Diamond Token, The
- Lakes of Cold Finn, The
- Grey Goose, The
- A-Nutting we will Go
- Barbara Allen (Bunting)
- Broomfield Hill, The (Phelps)
- Devil and the Apple, The
- Gypsy Laddie
- How Many Miles to Barley Bright
- John Barleycorn (Phelps)
- Lady Maisry (Arthur Nightingale)
- Milking Pails (Aston Subedge)
- Miller, The
- Old Woman Tossed Up, The (Phelps)
- Outlandish Knight, The (Hands)
- Outlandish Knight, The (Phelps)
- Poaching Song (Cook)
- Pretty Ploughboy, The (Bunting)
- Sally Jumped Over the Stars
- Sally Sally Water
- See What a Pretty Little Girl is Mine
- Seventeen come Sunday (Hands)
- Sir Roger
- Three Dukes a-Riding (Neal)
- Three Old Crows (Cook)
- Unquiet Grave, The (Clappen)
- Unquiet Grave, The (Nightingale)
- Unquiet Grave, The (Phelps)
- While Gamekeepers lie sleeping
- Lady Maisry (Mrs Nightingale)
- I Saw Three Ships a -Sailing