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The 1904 Houghton Mifflin edition of Child's English and Scottish Popular Ballads. The Child Ballads are 305 traditional ballads from England and Scotland, and their American variants, anthologized by Francis James Child during the second half of the 19th century. Their lyrics and Child's studies of them were published as The English and ...
The Child Ballads is the colloquial name given to a collection of 305 ballads collected in the 19th century by Francis James Child and originally published in ten volumes between 1882 and 1898 under the title The English and Scottish Popular Ballads. [1] [2]
Francis James Child (February 1, 1825 – September 11, 1896) was an American scholar, educator, and folklorist, best known today for his collection of English and Scottish ballads now known as the Child Ballads. Child was Boylston professor of rhetoric and oratory at Harvard University, where he produced influential editions of English poetry.
The Unquiet Grave. " The Unquiet Grave " is an Irish / English folk song in which a young man's grief over the death of his true love is so deep that it disturbs her eternal sleep. It was collected in 1868 by Francis James Child as Child Ballad number 78. [1] One of the more common tunes used for the ballad is the same as that used for the ...
Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard. "Matty Groves", also known as "Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard" or "Little Musgrave", is a ballad probably originating in Northern England that describes an adulterous tryst between a young man and a noblewoman that is ended when the woman's husband discovers and kills them. It is listed as Child ballad number ...
The ballad exists in a number of folkloric variants, from many different countries, and has been remade in a variety of formats. For example, it was recorded commercially in 1939 as "The Gallis Pole" by folk singer Huddie "Lead Belly" Ledbetter , and in 1970 as "Gallows Pole", an arrangement of the Fred Gerlach version, by English rock band Led ...
The English and Scottish Popular Ballads/Part 1/Chapter 26. "The Twa Corbies", illustration by Arthur Rackham for Some British Ballads. " The Three Ravens " (Roud 5, Child 26) is an English folk ballad, printed in the songbook Melismata[1] compiled by Thomas Ravenscroft and published in 1611, but the song is possibly older than that.
Nic Jones on his 1970 album, Ballads and Songs; Jackie Leven on his 1997 album Fairytales For Hard Men; Martin Carthy on his 1998 album Signs of Life; John Roberts on his 2003 album Sea Fever, as well as a song derived from another Child Ballad, The Sweet Trinity; June Tabor in her 2003 album An Echo of Hooves; Jim Malcolm Live at Glenfarg 2004 ...