The Jolly Pinder of Wakefield

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The Jolly Pinder of Wakefield

"Child ballad 124, about Robin Hood. The oldest manuscript of this English broadside ballad, according to the University of Rochester, dates back to 1557, and a fragment of the ballad appears also in the Percy Folio." Warning: template has been deprecated.

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Illustration from a broadside of this ballad.

"The Jolly Pinder of Wakefield", broadside printing (c. 1689; cf. Child's variant A).
"The Jolly Pinder of Wakefield" (no. 124) in The English and Scottish Popular Ballads ed. by Francis James Child (19th Century).
- Variant A (In Wakefield there lives a jolly pinder)
- Variant B ('But hold y . . hold y . . . ' says Robin)