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"The Unquiet Grave" is an English folk song in which a young man mourns his dead love too hard and prevents her from obtaining peace. It is thought to date from 1400 and was collected in 1868 by Francis James Child, as Child Ballad number 78. One of the more common tunes used for the ballad is the same as that used for the English ballad "Dives and Lazarus" and the Irish pub favorite "Star of the County Down".
"The Laily Worm and the Machrel of the Sea" is Child ballad number 36.
"Hind Horn" is a traditional English and Scottish folk ballad.
"Hind Etin" is a folk ballad existing in several variants.
Fair Annie is Child ballad number 62, existing in several variants.
Child Waters is Child ballad number 63, existing in several variants.
The Gay Goshawk is Child ballad number 96.
Jellon Grame is Child ballad number 90 and a murder ballad.
"The Fair Flower of Northumberland" is a folk ballad.
The Bent Sae Brown is Child ballad 71.
Fause Foodrage is Child ballad 89, existing in several variants.
Willie and Lady Maisry is Child ballad number 70.
Erlinton is #8 of the Child Ballads, the collection of 305 ballads from England and Scotland, and their American variants, collected by Francis James Child in the late nineteenth century. The collection was published as The English and Scottish Popular Ballads between 1882 and 1898 by Houghton Mifflin in ten volumes and later reissued in a five volume edition.
"Earl Brand" is a pseudo-historical English ballad.
"Young Andrew" is an old song catalogued as Child ballad 48.
The Clerk’s Twa Sons o Owsenford is Child ballad 72.
Sweet William's Ghost is an English Ballad and folk song which exists in many lyrical variations and musical arrangements. Early known printings of the song include Allan Ramsay's The Tea-Table Miscellany in 1740 and Thomas Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry in 1765. Percy believed that the last two stanzas of the version he published were later additions, but that the details of the story they recounted were original.
Willie's Fatal Visit is Child ballad 255.
"Brown Robyn's Confession" is Child ballad 57.
"Proud Lady Margaret" is Child ballad 47, existing in several variants.
References
- ↑ Francis James Child, English and Scottish Popular Ballads, "Clerk Saunders"
- ↑ Francis James Child, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, v 2, p 156-7, Dover Publications, New York 1965
- ↑ Francis James Child, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, v 2, p 167, Dover Publications, New York 1965
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- ↑ "Elizabeth Siddal (1829-1862)". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2010-08-17.
