Basket of Eggs - English Folk Song

English folklorist Roy Palmer has traced this song to The Man of War's Garland, a chapbook that was printed in 1796 (Bodleian Library, Harding Chapbooks, A15, no. 19). The song was titled Eggs and Bacon and tells of two sailors who steal a woman's basket, thinking it to be full of eggs which they plan to have cooked in an alehouse. When a child is discovered in the basket they offer five hundred pounds to any woman who will foster the child. Of course, the whole thing is a set-up by the mother who, having recognised one of the sailors—the father of the child, takes the money before declaring who she is! Gavin Greig, the assiduous Scottish song collector found nine versions, which he titled The Foundling Baby, though singers throughout England and Scotland have preferred to use another broadside title The Basket of Eggs.

This particular version was sung by Linda Adams for the 1998 album “English Folk Songs”.
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