Robin Hood and the Tanner

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Robin Hood and the Tanner is Child ballad 126.

[edit] Synopsis

A tanner, Arthur a Bland, goes to Sherwood. Robin Hood appears and accuses him of poaching. They fight. Robin blows on his horn, summoning his men, and tells them that the man is certainly a tanner, as he has tanned his hide. They take him into the band.

In some variants, Arthur is related to Little John.

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[edit] Recordings

Broadside Electric recorded a version of this ballad on their 1995 album Amplificata.

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