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Willie, in service of Earl Richard, impregnates the earl's daughter. Fearing Richard's wrath, the couple escapes to the woods, where their son is born. They name him Robin Hood (though the ballad is not considered part of the Robin Hood cycle). In a variant, the mother dies, and the earl makes the boy his heir. 103: Rose the Red and White Lily
In 1960 John Jacob Niles published The Ballad Book of John Jacob Niles, in which he connects folk songs which he collected throughout the southern United States and Appalachia in the early 20th century to the Child Ballads. Many of the songs he published were revived in the Folk music revival, for example "The Riddle Song" ("I gave my love a ...
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 ...
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 ...
An Alien Heat, The Hollow Lands, and The End Of All Songs - Part 1: Spirits Burning & Michael Moorcock: The Dancers at the End of Time: Michael Moorcock: Three albums covering the three books of the trilogy. The Black Halo: Kamelot: Faust: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The Black Halo is a concept album based on Faust, Part Two.
The following are often-sung Irish folk ballads and folk songs. The songs are arranged by theme under the categories "Politics and soldiering" and "Non-political" and are not necessarily contemporary to the events to which they relate. Songs may fit into more than one category, but where possible, are grouped uniquely to where is most appropriate.
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The ballad uses the kinds of rhyme, rhythm and metre commonly found in English ballads of the 13th and 14th centuries. It has from six to ten syllables per line, and no strict metrical scheme, but the rhyme scheme is throughout of ABCB quatrains.