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"The Ballad of Aidan McAnespie" – song about a young Catholic man, shot by a British soldier while walking to a Gaelic football match, at Aughnacloy border checkpoint in County Tyrone. [47] "The Ballad of Billy Reid" – song recorded by the Wolfe Tones, Shebeen, and others, about Provisional IRA member Billy Reid (killed in May 1971). [48]
The Ballad of Davy Crockett; The Ballad of Eskimo Nell; The Ballad of John and Yoko; Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let It Roll) Be Here Now (George Harrison song) Be Still (Kelly Clarkson song) Begin Again (Taylor Swift song) The Birthday Party (song) Bitter Green; Blackbird (Beatles song) Blind (SZA song) Blouse (song) The Bonny Bunch of Roses
Maria Wiik, Ballad (1898) A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music. Ballads were particularly characteristic of the popular poetry and song of Great Britain and Ireland from the Late Middle Ages until the 19th century. They were widely used across Europe, and later in Australia, North Africa, North America and South America.
Attempts to staunch the blood are not successful, and the dying brother tells the living one (usually) how to bury him, and (always) a long list of excuses to give the rest of the family, about his traveling to distant locations, to avoid admitting his death, ending with the injunction to tell his true love the truth. 50: The Bonny Hind
This list (like the article List of the Child Ballads) also serves as a link to articles about the songs, which may use a very different song title. The songs are listed in the index by accession number, rather than (for example) by subject matter or in order of importance. Some well-known songs have low Roud numbers (for example, many of the ...
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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]
Fair Mary of Wallington or Fair Lady of Wallington (Roud 59, Child 91) is a traditional English-language folk ballad. [1] Francis James Child lists at least seven variants of the ballad. [ 2 ] The first variant is titled "Fair Mary of Wallington", while another variant (variant C) is titled "The Bonny Early of Livingston".