The Jolly Pinder of Wakefield

Versions of The Jolly Pinder of Wakefield include:

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)