[Roud 1031; Ballad Index ShH22; VWML COL/5/29, COL/5/28, CJS2/9/1158; Bodleian Roud 1031; Wiltshire 288, 776; Mudcat 17303; trad.]. The English ballad Death and the Lady was collected in 1946 by Francis M. Collison from Mr Baker of Maidstone, Kent, and published in Ralph Vaughan Williams and A.L. Lloyd's Penguin Book of English Folk Songs.