Song information
- Title
- Shepherds are the best of men
- Alternative title
- Roud number
- 284
- Collected from
- Puffet, John
- Location
- Lechlade
- County
- Gloucestershire
- Collected by
- Williams, Alfred
- Tune
- Date
- Primary source
- WSRO: 2598/36 Packet 2 - Gloucestershire: Williams, A: MS collection No Gl 116
- Secondary source
- Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard, 30th October, 1915, p 2, Part 5, No. 10: Williams, A: Folk songs of the upper Thames, 1923, p 241, 242