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"Lord Randall", or "Lord Randal", (Roud 10, Child 12) is an Anglo-Scottish border ballad [1] consisting of dialogue between a young Lord and his mother. [2] Similar ballads can be found across Europe in many languages, including Danish , German , Magyar , Irish , Swedish , and Wendish .
Illustration by Alexander George Fraser of Get Up and Bar the Door. Get Up and Bar the Door is a medieval Scots ballad about a battle of wills between a husband and wife. It is Child ballad 275 (Roud 115).
Francis James Child collected the words to over 300 British folk ballads. Illustration by Arthur Rackham of Child Ballad 26, "The Twa Corbies"Child's collection was not the first of its kind; there had been many less scholarly collections of English and Scottish ballads, particularly from Bishop Thomas Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (1765) onwards. [4]
Its lyrical structure is based on the question-and-answer refrain pattern of the traditional British ballad "Lord Randall", published by Francis Child. The song is characterized by symbolist imagery in the style of Arthur Rimbaud, communicating suffering, pollution, and warfare. Dylan has said that all of the lyrics were taken from the initial ...
However, the song is much older: William Hamilton of Bangour wrote a poem called "The Braes of Yarrow" which has some basis in the ballad. It appears in a collection of his poems first published in Edinburgh in 1724. [citation needed] It is said to be "written in imitation of an old Scottish ballad on a similar subject".
One poem is titled “Ain’t No Plantations in Kentucky,” and simply lists in alphabetical order the many, many places where enslaved people worked the land, including Walnut Hill, Ward Hall ...
"Riddles Wisely Expounded" is a traditional English song, dating at least to 1450. It is Child Ballad 1 and Roud 161, and exists in several variants. [1] The first known tune was attached to it in 1719.
Stabler deflects and instead asks Randall to tell them about their father. Christopher Meloni as Det. Elliot Stabler and Ellen Burstyn as Bernadette Stabler in season 4 of Bernie enters the room ...