The melody for this popular carol is an old English folk song, and the lyrics date to at least the early 18th century. But the sacred symbolism of holly and ivy extends even further back into ...

THE recent amalgamation of the Folk Song Society with the English Folk Dance Society has been marked by the appearance of a new journal with the title Journal of the English Folk Dance and Song ...

Most of the songsare adaptations of Old English Folk songs produced using a mixture ... When people make a claim for song-lyrics as poetry, Dylan and Leonard Cohen are usually the lyricists ...