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The traditional form and content of the ballad were modified to form the basis for twenty-three bawdy pornographic ballads that appeared in the underground Victorian magazine The Pearl, which ran for eighteen issues between 1879 and 1880. Unlike the traditional ballad, these obscene ballads aggressively mocked sentimental nostalgia and local lore.
For a comprehensive list of 25,000 traditional English language songs, see List of folk songs by Roud number ... English Broadside Ballad Archive; F. The Farmer's Boy ...
The Cruel Sister from The Book of British Ballads (1842) "The Two Sisters" (also known by the Scots title "The Twa Sisters") is a traditional murder ballad, dating at least as far back as the mid 17th century. The song recounts the tale of a girl drowned by her jealous sister.
The first page of an 1840 printed version of "Barbara Allen" one of the most widely collected English language folk ballads. It was in this period, too, that English folk music traveled across the Atlantic Ocean and became one of the foundations of American traditional music.
Kemp Owyne" or "Kempion" (Roud 3912, Child 34) is a traditional English-language folk ballad. [1] [2] Synopsis
Willie O Winsbury (Child 100, Roud 64) is a traditional English-language folk ballad. The song, of which there are many variants, is a traditional Scottish ballad that dates from at least 1775, and is known under several other names, including "Johnnie Barbour" and "Lord Thomas of Winesberry".
"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]