Just found out that there is a PDF of the Cecil Sharp book collection of folk songs available on archive.org
https://archive.org/details/onehundredengli00shargoog
I hadn't realised there was a version of this book in print until a sales catalogue from a place I picked up a book from a few months back came through the door today.
Not sure if I'd even realised it was compiled as a book, though I may well have seen references to such in things like Rob Young's Electric Eden and other books on various aspects of the folk revival. I know there is a Cecil Sharp House which I think holds an archive of Sharp's notes on folk music of the British Isles.
Now I've found it is available there on archive.org in PDF form. Might be nice to have a physical copy to refer to though.
Sharp has set notation for piano for all the songs, I'm not sure how easy it is to translate that to guitar. I'm also not sure what instrumentation he would have heard them performed to. I'm not sure a piano would have been a universal outside of the Victorian/Edwardian drawing room and would think that as folk songs these would have had earthier origins.
but a number of these songs are the ones that you will hear the Britfolk bands like Fairport Convention, Steeleye Span, Pentangle, Trees and so on playing on their lps from the late 60s/early 70s so it might be interesting to look at them from that perspective.
http://www.psbooks.co.uk/…/it…/one-hundred-english-folksongs is where I first saw the book mentioned, or at least in the catalogue that shop sends out.
Stevo
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