"A lamentable ballad of the little Musgrove". A seventeenth-century broadside held in the Bodleian Library.
Catalogue
Child Ballad 81 Roud Folk Song Index 52
Genre
Ballad
Language
English
Performed
First attested in writing in 1613
Published
Earliest surviving broadside dated to before 1675
Also known by several other names
Wikisource has original text related to this article:
Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard
"Matty Groves", also known as "Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard" or "Little Musgrave", is a ballad probably originating in Northern England that describes an adulterous tryst between a young man and a noblewoman that is ended when the woman's husband discovers and kills them. It is listed as Child ballad number 81 and number 52 in the Roud Folk Song Index.[1][2] This song exists in many textual variants and has several variant names. The song dates to at least 1613, and under the title Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard is one of the Child ballads collected by 19th-century American scholar Francis James Child.
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^"Matty Groves". vwml.org. English Folk Dance and Song Society / Vaughan Williams Memorial Library. Archived from the original on 15 December 2017. Retrieved 3 March 2017.
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