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The False Bride

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[Roud 154; G/D 6:1198; Ballad Index K152; VWML CJS2/10/75, CJS2/9/505; Bodleian Roud 154; Wiltshire 599, 829; trad.] A version of this song was printed on a Newcastle broadsheet in the 1680s. It was also collected by Cecil Sharp in 1904. This traditional song is also known as "The Week Before Easter," "I Once Loved a Lass," and "I Courted a Wee Girl."
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Title Performer Release date Info
1957
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1963
1963
1964 Live
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February 1968
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1968
An Awakening - Whitsun Dance Shirley Collins & Dolly Collins (Shirley Collins, Dolly Collins) July 1969 Unverified
Dancing at Whitsun Tim Hart & Maddy Prior 1971 Unverified
1972
False Bride Gallery [GB] 1972 Unverified
October 1973
1973
1973
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Dancing at Whitsun Jean Redpath 1975 Unverified
Dancing at Whitsun Priscilla Herdman 1977 Unverified
1981
1981
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Dancing at Whitsun Bram Taylor 1986 Unverified
Whitsun Dance / The Bloody Fields of Flanders The Electropathics 1987 Unverified
1988
Dancing at Whitsun Stone Angel 1994 Unverified
1997
June 1998 Live
Acoustic
August 29, 2003
March 29, 2008
April 23, 2008
Dancing at Whitsun / The Valentine Crucible 2008 Unverified
May 1, 2011
Whitsun Dance Philip Henry and Hannah Martin September 2, 2013 Unverified
April 28, 2015
Whitsuntide Dancers Blackwater December 2015 Unverified
January 24, 2016
January 28, 2017
January 29, 2021

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