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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
"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]
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]
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 ...
Anaïs Mitchell and Jefferson Hamer on the album Child Ballads; and; John Langstaff on his 1964 album Nottamun Town. Being a well-documented song publicised by Mudcat, [16] and Mainly Norfolk, [17] the song was recorded by Jon Boden and Oli Steadman for inclusion in their respective lists of daily folk songs "A Folk Song A Day" [18] and "365 ...
"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 ...
The influential Appalachian folk singer Jean Ritchie had her family version of the ballad recorded several times, including on her album Ballads from her Appalachian Family Tradition (1961). [ 21 ] [ 22 ] Her fellow Appalachian Nimrod Workman sang his own traditional version on different occasions, [ 23 ] including on a YouTube video uploaded ...
Babylon (ballad) The Baffled Knight; The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington; The Ballad of Chevy Chase; Barbara Allen (song) Battle of Harlaw; The Battle of Otterburn (ballad) The Beggar-Laddie; Adam Bell; The Bent Sae Brown; Bessy Bell and Mary Gray; Blancheflour and Jollyflorice; The Bold Pedlar and Robin Hood; Bonnie Annie; The Bonnie Earl o ...