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Here's Christmas Day a-Drawing Nigh
George Gardiner Manuscript Collection (GG/1/11/700)

1 of approx 88 results
First Line

Performer

Stride, Alfred

Date collected

19 Jun 1907

Place

England : Hampshire : Dibden

Collector

Gardiner, G.B. / Guyer, John F.

Roud No

808 [Search for 808 in the current indexes]

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H700

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Song

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Text; Music

Named Tune

Child No

Laws No

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Repository

EFDSS Archive

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- GG/1/11 Main Entries for Gardiner's Songs & Frank Purslow's Transcripts (File 10)
- GG/1/11/700 Here's Christmas Day a-Drawing Nigh (This record)
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Xmas Day is Drawing Near at Hand
Ralph Vaughan Williams Manuscript Collection (at British Library) (RVW2/12/3/155)

2 of approx 88 results
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Performer

Date collected

Place

England

Collector

Vaughan Williams, Ralph

Roud No

808 [Search for 808 in the current indexes]

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British Library

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- RVW2/12/3 Vaughan Williams Folk Song Collections, Working Notebooks and Misc. Papers (2 vols., the first containing 13 notebooks, 59535 A-M and 59536; Selected pages only)
- RVW2/12/3/155 Xmas Day is Drawing Near at Hand (This record)
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Christmas Now is Drawing Nigh at Hand
Ralph Vaughan Williams Manuscript Collection (at British Library) (RVW2/12/3/269)

3 of approx 88 results
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Performer

Date collected

Place

England

Collector

Vaughan Williams, Ralph

Roud No

808 [Search for 808 in the current indexes]

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Comprises brief references to published sources

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British Library

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- RVW2/12/3 Vaughan Williams Folk Song Collections, Working Notebooks and Misc. Papers (2 vols., the first containing 13 notebooks, 59535 A-M and 59536; Selected pages only)
- RVW2/12/3/269 Christmas Now is Drawing Nigh at Hand (This record)
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Christmas Drawing Near At Hand
Roud Folksong Index (S140771)

4 of approx 88 results
First Line

Now Christmas is drawing near at hand

Roud No

808 [Search for 808 in the current indexes]

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Carnell, Ballads in the Charles Harding Firth Collection No.G22

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Place

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Date collected

Format

Printed : Street literature : Broadside catalogue

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Printer / Publisher

Pratt (Birmingham)

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Roud Bib ref

X4719

Type

Song
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Christmas Drawing Near At Hand
Roud Folksong Index (S140772)

5 of approx 88 results
First Line

Christmas now is drawing near at hand

Roud No

808 [Search for 808 in the current indexes]

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Carnell, Ballads in the Charles Harding Firth Collection No.G29

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Place

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Date collected

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Printed : Street literature : Broadside catalogue

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Catnach (London)

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X4719

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Song
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Christmas Drawing Near At Hand
Roud Folksong Index (S140773)

6 of approx 88 results
First Line

Christmas now is drawing near at hand

Roud No

808 [Search for 808 in the current indexes]

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Carnell, Ballads in the Charles Harding Firth Collection No.G30

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Date collected

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Pitts (London)

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Roud Bib ref

X4719

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Song
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Christmas Now is Drawing Near At Hand
Roud Folksong Index (S140792)

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Roud No

808 [Search for 808 in the current indexes]

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Dicey & Marshall's Catalogue (Christmas Carols) p.98

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Printed : Street literature : Broadside printer's catalogue

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Reference only

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Dicey & Marshall (London)

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Roud Bib ref

X4985

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Song
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Christmas Now is Drawing Near At Hand [traditional Ballad Index Entry]
Roud Folksong Index (S504351)

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Roud No

808 [Search for 808 in the current indexes]

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Traditional Ballad Index (online) JRUI162

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Place

Collector

Date collected

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Online index

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Roud Bib ref

X10951

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Song
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http://www.fresnostate.edu/folklore/ballads/JRUI162.html
Gypsy Children's Carol
Roud Folksong Index (S331434)

9 of approx 88 results
First Line

Now Christmas Day is drawing near at hand

Roud No

808 [Search for 808 in the current indexes]

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Source

Smith, Through Romany Songland (1889) pp.138, 141-142

Performer

Wharton, Eliza

Place

England : Shropshire

Collector

Burne, Charlotte

Date collected

1880c

Format

Printed : Book

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Text; Music

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Female

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Roud Bib ref

X7651

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Song
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Gipsy Children's Carol
Roud Folksong Index (S332121)

10 of approx 88 results
First Line

Now Christmas day is drawing near at hand

Roud No

808 [Search for 808 in the current indexes]

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Ella M. Leather MSS Collection (VWML): Loose texts (1) EML/3/32

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Burne, Shropshite Folk-Lore (1883)

Roud Bib ref

X7701

Type

Song
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Christian People
Ella Mary Leather Manuscript Collection - VWML Song Index (SN32697)

11 of approx 88 results
First Line

You Christian people all within this lands

Roud No

808 [Search for 808 in the current indexes]

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Source

Ella Mary Leather Collection, EML/2

Performer

[Smith, Mrs.]

Place

[England : Herefordshire : King's Pyon]

Collector

Leather, Ella Mary

Date collected

[1912-09]

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Named singer

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Ella M. Leather MSS Collection (VWML) : Loose texts

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