False Knight in the Wood- M. Eyre (Hunt) 1962 (1860s)
[From JFDSS IX 3 (1962) 156-7; 55 IX Pt.1 (1965) 13(E). Collinson: Miss Eyre, who has Scottish forbears, has lived for many years at St. Briavels, in the Forest of Dean, West Gloucestershire. She sent the following songs to Cecil Sharp House in the spring of 1958 following a broadcast by Mr. Douglas Kennedy in which an appeal was made for versions of old ballads and songs. She was then in her 84th year.
Miss Eyre's tune is different from the one collected by Child and from those collected by the School of Scottish Studies or in Bronson. She learnt the song from an aunt who was taught it by her nurse at Bluntisham, Huntingdonshire in the 1860's. Miss Eyre was unable to recall more than the first verse.
R. Mateson 2018]
The False Knight in the Wood- Single stanza remembered by Miss Margaret Eyre of Glouchestershire. Learned from her nurse in Huntingdonshire, England, 1962; collected by Francis Collinson.
"O, where are you going?" said the old dark knight,
Said the old dark knight in the wood.
"I'm going to the school," said the little little boy,
And he answered him where he stood.