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29-473: "Roses Are Red" is the name of a love poem and children's rhyme with Roud Folk Song Index number 19798. It has become a cliché for Valentine's Day , and has spawned multiple humorous and parodic variants. A modern standard version is: Roses are red   Violets are blue, Sugar is sweet   And so are you. The rhyme builds on poetic conventions that are traceable as far back as Edmund Spenser 's epic The Faerie Queene of 1590: It

58-706: A National Portfolio Organisation) of Arts Council England . In 2011 the society entered into a joint commission with Shrewsbury Folk Festival to create the Cecil Sharp Project , a multi-artist residential commission to create new works based on the life and collecting of Cecil Sharp . The project took place in March 2011, the artists involved being: Steve Knightley , Andy Cutting , Leonard Podolak , Jim Moray , Jackie Oates , Caroline Herring , Kathryn Roberts and Patsy Reid. In 2013, EFDSS launched The Full English , an ongoing archive project supported by

87-515: A folksong collection made by Helmut Schaffrath and now incorporating Classical themes, themes from a number of Baroque composers, and Renaissance themes. It is proposed to include Indigenous American songs, as transcribed around the years 1900 to 1920 by Natalie Curtis . The Folk Song Index is a collaborative project between the Oberlin College Library and the folk music journal Sing Out! . It indexes traditional folk songs of

116-637: A member-based organisation, was incorporated in 1935 and became a registered charity in 1963. The Folk-Song Society, founded in London in 1898, focused on collecting and publishing folk songs, primarily of Britain and Ireland although there was no formal limitation. Participants included: Lucy Broadwood , George Butterworth , George Gardiner , Anne Gilchrist , Percy Grainger , Henry Hammond, Ella Leather , Kate Lee , Susan Lushington , May Elliot Hobbs , Cecil Sharp , Ralph Vaughan Williams and Mary Augusta Wakefield . The English Folk Dance Society

145-527: A number to each song, including all variants (now known as the "Roud number") to overcome the problem of songs in which even the titles were not consistent across versions. The system initially used 3x5-inch filing cards in shoeboxes. In 1993, Roud implemented his record system on a computer database , which he continues to expand and maintain and which is now hosted on the website of the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library . In

174-717: A particular song. Comprehensive details of those songs are then available, including details of the original collected source, and a reference to where to find the text (and possibly music) of the song within a published volume in the EFDSS archive. A related index, the Roud Broadside Index, includes references to songs which appeared on broadsides and other cheap print publications, up to about 1920. In addition, there are many entries for music hall songs, pre- World War II radio performers' song folios, sheet music, etc. The index may be searched by title, first line etc. and

203-649: A year. This has become the longest-established magazine devoted to folk music, dance and song in the country. English Dance & Song is aimed at stimulating the interest of the membership of the EFDSS, as well as the wider folk music and dance community. Their regular scholarly publication is Folk Music Journal , published annually in December, which was formerly entitled the Journal of the English Folk Dance and Song Society until 1965. The work continues

232-467: Is Kennedy Hall, a large concert and performance space with a sprung ballroom floor for dancing. The space features acoustic-focused design elements, courtesy of Fletcher's friend and fellow architect Hope Bagenal . The building was damaged by bombing in 1940 the Second World War . The basement and library were mostly undamaged, but the entrance, stairs, and main hall were all damaged. After

261-418: Is a similar index of almost 218,000 Latvian folksong texts, created by Latvian scholar Krišjānis Barons at the end 19th century and beginning of the 20th century. The Essen folk song database is another collection that includes songs from non-English-speaking countries, particularly Germany and China. It is a collaboration between groups at Stanford University and Ohio State University , stemming from

290-612: Is red, the violet's blue, The honey 's sweet, and so are you. Thou are my love and I am thine; I drew thee to my Valentine: The lot was cast and then I drew, And Fortune said it shou'd be you. Victor Hugo was probably familiar with Spenser, but may not have known the English nursery rhyme when he published his novel Les Misérables in 1862. A song by the character Fantine contains this refrain: Les bleuets sont bleus, les roses sont roses, Les bleuets sont bleus, j'aime mes amours. In his English translation published in

319-669: The Heritage Lottery Fund , The Folklore Society , the National Folk Music Fund and the English Miscellany Folk Dance Group. This free and searchable resource of 44,000 records and over 58,000 digitised images is the world's biggest digital archive of traditional music and dance tunes. As well as folk music, the EFDSS is home to a number of performance artists, providing a regular performance platform for acts including

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348-907: The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain , the Massive Violins and the Swingle Singers . In September 2021, EFDSS opened consultation to consider changing its name, as it was felt by some that it did not represent the aims and outlook of the society. A proposed name was 'Folk Arts England', a name formerly used between 2005 and 2014 by the Association of Festival Organisers. Of 65 members surveyed in November 2021, 74% approved this name, against other proposals such as 'Folk Arts Society'. As of April 2022 , consultation continues. The EFDSS Gold Badge Award, created in 1922,

377-625: The 1950s. The index was compiled and is maintained by Steve Roud , formerly the Local Studies Librarian in the London Borough of Croydon . He was also Honorary Librarian of the Folklore Society . He began it in around 1970 as a personal project, listing the source singer (if known), their locality, the date of noting the song, the publisher (book or recorded source), plus other fields, and crucially assigning

406-609: The EFDSS HQ, Cecil Sharp House, is named after her. One of the greatest contributions that the EFDSS made to the folk movement, both dance and song, was the folk festival , starting with the Stratford-upon-Avon Festival in the 1940s and continuing with festivals in Whitby , Sidmouth , Holmfirth , Chippenham and elsewhere. Since 1936 the EFDSS has published English Dance & Song at least four times

435-529: The Roud Folk Song Index is as a research aid correlating versions of traditional English-language folk song lyrics independently documented over past centuries by many different collectors across (especially) the UK and North America. It is possible by searching the database—for example by title, first line(s), or subject matter (or a combination of any of a dozen fields)—to locate many of the variants of

464-660: The Roud Folk Song Index shows 22 sources for " Hind Etin " (Roud 33, Child 41), while the Traditional Ballad Index list only one source.) EFDSS The English Folk Dance and Song Society ( EFDSS , or pronounced 'EFF-diss' ) is an organisation that promotes English folk music and folk dance. EFDSS was formed in 1932 when two organisations merged: the Folk-Song Society and the English Folk Dance Society. The EFDSS,

493-504: The United Kingdom. In addition to Kennedy Hall, Cecil Sharp House contains several smaller performance and rehearsal spaces; a café and bar; and the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library and Archive . Cecil Sharp House is an active and popular venue for concerts, as well as conferences and other private functions. In 2015, the building was voted as one of London's 20 best music venues by readers of Time Out magazine. In 1998, with

522-531: The earlier journals of the two societies: Journal of the Folk-Song Society , 1899–1931; Journal of the English Folk Dance Society , 1914–31. The Society is based at Cecil Sharp House in Camden , North London. Originally conceived as a purpose-built headquarters for the English Folk Dance Society, and now Grade II-listed, it was designed in the neo-Georgian style by architect Henry Martineau Fletcher, and opened on 7 June 1930. The building's most striking feature

551-421: The folk movement strongly supported by a number of other organisations and the seeds planted by EFDSS thriving, the EFDSS altered its strategy to focus on education and archiving, with its primary goal the development of the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library as the country's national archive and resource centre for folk music, dance and song. In 2009, the society became a regularly funded organisation (now called

580-553: The online version of the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library in 2006. The purpose of the index is to give each song a unique identifier . The numbers were assigned on a more or less arbitrary basis, and are not intended to carry any significance in themselves. However, because of the practicalities of compiling the index (building on previously published sources) it is true as a general rule that older and better-known songs tend to occupy low numbers, while songs which are obscure have higher numbers. Closely related songs are grouped under

609-509: The past few years, the numbers have been widely accepted in academic circles. James Madison Carpenter 's collection has 6,200 transcriptions and 1,000 recorded cylinders made between 1927 and 1955. The index gives the title, first line and the name of the source singer. When appropriate, the Child number is given. It is still a largely unexploited resource, with none of the recordings easily available. The Cabinet of Folksongs ( Dainu skapis )

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638-530: The poem in a verse of his 1964 hit " Dang Me ": They say roses are red and violets are purple Sugar's sweet and so is maple syruple . [ sic ] The Marx Brothers ' film Horse Feathers has Chico Marx describing the symptoms of cirrhosis thus: Cirrhosis are red, so violets are blue, so sugar is sweet, so so are you. The Benny Hill version: Roses are reddish Violets are bluish If it weren't for Christmas We'd all be Jewish. Roud Folk Song Index The primary function of

667-451: The result includes details of the original imprint and where a copy may be located. The Roud number – "Roud num" – field may be used as a cross-reference to the Roud Folk Song Index itself in order to establish the traditional origin of the work. The database is recognised as a "significant index" by the EFDSS and was one of the first items to be published on its web site after the launch of

696-563: The same Roud number. If a trusted authority gives the name of a song but not the words, it is assigned Roud number 000. The Index cross-references to the Child Ballad number, if one is available for the particular song in question. It also includes, where appropriate, the Laws number , a reference to a system of classification of folk songs, using one letter of the alphabet and up to two numeric digits, developed by George Malcolm Laws in

725-634: The same year, Charles Edwin Wilbour rendered this as: Violets are blue, roses are red, Violets are blue, I love my loves. This translation replaces the original version's cornflowers (" bleuets ") with violets, and makes the roses red rather than pink, effectively making the song closer to the English nursery rhyme. The short poem has since become a snowclone , and numerous satirical versions have long circulated in children's lore. Among them: Roses are red. Violets are blue. Onions stink. And so do you. Country music singer Roger Miller parodied

754-477: The war, the architect John Eastwick-Field was commissioned to restore the building, which was reopened in 1951. The raised musicians gallery in the main hall, destroyed by the bombing, was not reinstated; in its place the British abstract pastoral painter Ivon Hitchens was commissioned to paint a mural, which shows English folk dances and traditions. When unveiled in 1954, it was the largest single-wall mural in

783-480: The world, with an emphasis on English-language songs, and contains over 62,000 entries and over 2,400 anthologies. Max Hunter's collection lists 1,600 songs, but each minor variant is given a distinct number. The Traditional Ballad Index at the California State University at Fresno includes Roud numbers up to number 5,000 with comments on the songs, but draws on fewer sources. (For example,

812-400: Was founded in 1911 by Cecil Sharp . Maud Karpeles was a leading participant. Its purpose was to preserve and promote English folk dances in their traditional forms, including Morris and sword dances , traditional social dances , and interpretations of the dances published by John Playford . The first secretary of the society was Lady Mary Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis; Trefusis Hall in

841-532: Was upon a Sommers shynie day, When Titan faire his beames did display, In a fresh fountaine, farre from all mens vew, She bath'd her brest, the boyling heat t'allay; She bath'd with roses red, and violets blue, And all the sweetest flowres, that in the forrest grew. A rhyme similar to the modern standard version can be found in Gammer Gurton's Garland , a 1784 collection of English nursery rhymes published in London by Joseph Johnson : The rose

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