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There are a number of different versions of the ballad. In addition to the eight collected by Francis James Child in volume IV of his anthology The English and Scottish Popular Ballads (versions A to H), others can be found in Britain and in the United States, where it remained especially widespread, [4] with hundreds of versions being collected throughout the years, [5] around 250 of them in ...
"The Raggle Taggle Gypsy" (Roud 1, Child 200), is a traditional folk song that originated as a Scottish border ballad, and has been popular throughout Britain, Ireland and North America. It concerns a rich lady who runs off to join the gypsie
Anglo-American traditional music also includes a variety of broadside ballads, humorous stories and tall tales, and disaster songs regarding mining, shipwrecks and murder. [32] Folk songs may be classified by subject matter, such as: drinking songs , sporting songs , train songs, work songs , war songs , and ballads .
Traditional folk 1952 Gordon Heath & Lee Payant: Chants traditionnels des États-Unis / The Ballad of the Boll Weevil and Other Traditional Songs of the United States: Traditional folk 1955 Robert Shaw Chorale: My True Love Sings: Traditional folk 1956 Phineas Newborn, Jr. While My Lady Sleeps: Jazz: 1957 Pete Seeger: American Favorite Ballads ...
George Malcolm Laws (January 4, 1919 – August 1, 1994) was a scholar of traditional British and American folk song. [1] [2]He was best known for his collection of traditional ballads "American Balladry from British Broadsides", published in 1957 by the American Folklore Society.
"Barbara Allen" (Child 84, Roud 54) is a traditional folk song that is popular throughout the English-speaking world and beyond. It tells of how the eponymous character denies a dying man's love, then dies of grief soon after his untimely death.
John Jacob Niles (April 28, 1892 – March 1, 1980) was an American composer, singer and collector of traditional ballads. Called the "Dean of American Balladeers," [ 1 ] Niles was an important influence on the American folk music revival of the 1950s and 1960s, with Odetta , Joan Baez , Burl Ives , Peter, Paul and Mary and Bob Dylan , among ...
Smith divided the collection into three, two record volumes: Ballads, Social Music, and Songs. The first volume consists of ballads including many American versions of Child Ballads taken from the English folk tradition. Each song tells a story about a specific event or time, and Smith may have made some effort to organize them to suggest a ...