Walter Pardon is said to have known at least 182 songs. Some of these, for example "A Ship to Old England Came" (Roud 1424) are rare, and have not been recorded from other traditional singers. As well as ballads such as "The Trees they do Grow High" (Roud 31, Laws O35) and Lord Lovel (Roud 48, Child 75), he sang music hall songs such as "Old Brown's Daughter" (Roud 1426). Among his more unusual songs were anthems of the nineteenth century National Agricultural Labourers' Union led by Joseph Arch, such as "We Meet Today in Freedom's Cause" (Roud
