Sheath and Knife

Sheath and Knife

"Sheath and Knife" (Roud [http://library.efdss.org/cgi-bin/query.cgi?cross=off&index_roud=on&query=3960&field=20 3960] , Child 16) is a folk ballad. [Francis James Child, "English and Scottish Popular Ballads" [http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/child/ch016.htm "Sheath and Knife"] ]

ynopsis

A woman is pregnant with her brother's child. He takes her to the greenwood to have her child, but she dies. He buries her and laments her death.

Variants

"Leesome Brand", Child ballad 15, is closely related to this ballad, and some variants are hard to distinguish; [Francis James Child, "The English and Scottish Popular Ballads", v 1, p 178, Dover Publications, New York 1965] the hero laments the death in the same language as "Sheath and Knife".

Other ballads on this theme include "The Bonny Hind", "The King's Dochter Lady Jean", and "Lizie Wan". [Francis James Child, "The English and Scottish Popular Ballads", v 1, p 185, Dover Publications, New York 1965]

Versions

* Ewan MacColl sang this ballad and it is included on the collection "Black & White".
* Broadside Electric included it on the 1996 album "More Bad News ..." and again on the 2002 album "".
* Sol Invictus (band) has a live version on the 1994 album "The Death of the West".
* Maddy Prior has a version on her 1998 album "Flesh & Blood".
* Helen Schneyer [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Bonchek_Schneyer] did a stunning a capella version on her Folk-Legacy album [Ballads, Broadsides and Hymns] [http://www.folk-legacy.com/store/scripts/prodView.asp?idProduct=91] .

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