The Baffled Knight

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rdf:langString "The Baffled Knight" or "Blow Away the Morning Dew" (Roud 11, Child 112) is a traditional ballad existing in numerous variants. The first-known version was published in Thomas Ravenscroft's Deuteromelia (1609) with a matching tune, making this one of the few early ballads for which there is extant original music. The song was included in such notable collections as Pills to Purge Melancholy by Thomas d'Urfey (1719–1720) and Reliques of Ancient English Poetry by Thomas Percy (1765). Versions were collected in England, Scotland, the USA, Canada. One version was recorded by Cecil Sharp from John Dingle (Coryton, Devon, 12 September 1905). The "Blow Away the Morning Dew" version was used in the third movement of Ralph Vaughan Williams' English Folk Song Suite (1923). Norfolk fisherman Sam Larner sang this same melody to Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger in 1958-60, then was filmed performing the song in 1962.