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The Roud Folk Song Index is a database of around 250,000[1] references to nearly 25,000 songs collected from oral tradition in the English language from all over the world. It is compiled by Steve Roud.[2] Roud's Index is a combination of the Broadside Index (printed sources before 1900) and a "field-recording index" compiled by Roud. It subsumes all the previous printed sources known to Francis James Child (the Child Ballads) and includes recordings from 1900 to 1975. Until early 2006, the index was available by a CD subscription; now it can be found online on the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library website, maintained by the English Folk Dance and Song Society (EFDSS).[3] A partial list is also available at List of folk songs by Roud number.
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^English Folk Dance and Song Society. The EFDSS listed 187,800 records in the growing Folksong database in October 2012 (which includes all of the songs in the Broadside database with "traditional" origins).
^"Search and browse tips". Vaughan Williams Memorial Library. Retrieved 29 March 2018.
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