Song information

Title
Pressed off to war
Alternative title
Pretty ploughing boy
Roud number
186
Collected from
King, Thomas
Location
Castle Eaton
County
Wiltshire
Collected by
Williams, Alfred
Tune
Date
Primary source
WSHC 2598/72 Manuscript of A Cotswold Ploughing Match and other folk songs included in Folk Songs of the Upper Thames
Secondary source
Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard, 5th February, 1916, p 3, Part 17, No. 2 X,805