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"The Ballad of Poker Alice" Songs Inspired by Literature, Chapter Two: Larry Kenneth Potts: Nothing Like It in the World: Stephen Ambrose: Relates the story of "Poker" Alice Ivers [51] "The Ballad of Skip Wiley" Barometer Soup: Jimmy Buffett: Tourist Season: Carl Hiaasen: A song about the character Skip Wiley from Hiaasen's 1986 novel. [52 ...
"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.
'5 Songs on Poems by W.B.Yeats' composed by Dutch composer Carolien Devilee (A Faery Song, He wishes for the clothes of heaven, The lake isle of Innisfree, To his heart, bidding it have no fear & The everlasting voices) "Tread Softly" by Tiny Ruins, uses the words of "The Cloths of Heaven" by Yeats.
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.
"The Ballad of Chevy Chase" is an English ballad, catalogued as Child Ballad 162 (Roud 223 [1]). There are two extant ballads under this title, both of which narrate the same story. As ballads existed within oral tradition before being written down, other versions of this once-popular song also may have existed.
The Wainwright Sisters also included a recording of Long Lankin on their 2015 album Songs in the Dark. Blackbeard's Tea Party's 2013 album Whip Jamboree features a version of the ballad. For her 2016 album Lodestar, English folk singer Shirley Collins recorded a version of "Cruel Lincoln," which draws from the Ben Butcher version.
The main collection of the Ballads was published in the 1890s, in two volumes: Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses (1892, the first major publishing success for Methuen) and The Seven Seas (1896), sometimes published as The Seven Seas and Further Barrack-Room Ballads. In both books, they were collected into a specific section set aside from ...
"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. Newer versions (with different music) were recorded up through the 19th ...