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"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 gypsies (or one gypsy). Common alternative names are "Gypsy Davy", "The Raggle Taggle Gypsies O", "The Gypsy Laddie(s)", "Black Jack David" (or "Davy") and "Seven Yellow Gypsies".
Catskin is an English fairy tale collected by Joseph Jacobs in More English Fairy Tales. Marian Roalfe Cox, in her study of Cinderella, identified as one of the basic types, the Unnatural Father, contrasting with Cinderella itself and Cap O' Rushes.
"Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight" is the English common name representative of a very large class of European ballads.
"Hind Horn" is a traditional English and Scottish folk ballad.
"The Twa Magicians", "The Two Magicians", "The Lady and the Blacksmith", or "The Coal Black Smith" is a British folk song. It first appears in print in 1828 in two sources, Peter Buchan's Ancient Ballads and Songs of the North of Scotland and John Wilson's Noctes Ambrosianae #40. It was later published as number 44 of Francis James Child's English and Scottish Popular Ballads. During the 20th century, versions of it have been recorded by a number of folk and popular musicians.
"The Bonny Hind" is a traditional English-language folk song.
The Jolly Beggar, also known as The Gaberlunzieman, The Ragged Beggarman or simply The Beggar Man, is a traditional Scottish folk ballad. The song's chorus inspired lines in Lord Byron's poem "So, we'll go no more a roving".
Lizie Lindsay, also known as "Lizzie Lindsay" or "Leezie Lindsay", is a traditional English-language folk song most likely originating in Scotland. It exists in several variants.
Bonny Lizie Baillie is an English-language folk song that some traditions claim recounts an actual historical courtship.
"Andrew Lammie", also known as Mill o' Tifty or Mill o' Tifty's Annie, is a traditional Scottish ballad, set in Aberdeenshire, and catalogued as Child ballad 233. It tells the story of an ill-fated romance between Annie, the daughter of the miller at Tifty, and Andrew Lammie, the trumpeter for the lord of nearby Fyvie Castle. The romance is thwarted by Annie's ambitious family, who disapprove of the trumpeter's low rank. In most versions, the ballad ends with Annie's death at the hands of her brother.
Dugall Quin is a traditional English-language folk ballad.
"Lizie Wan", also called "Lucy Wan" or "Fair Lizzie," is an English-language murder ballad.
Glasgow Peggie or Glasgow Peggy is a traditional English-language folk song, existing in several variants.
Richie Story, also called The Earl of Weymss, is an English-language folk song existing in several variants. According to Francis James Child, the ballad is based on historical events that happened around 1673.
"The Twa Brothers" is a traditional ballad existing in many variants.
"The King's Dochter Lady Jean", also called "The King's Daughter," "Fair Rosie Ann," or "Queen Jane", is an English-language folk song.
Will Stewart and John is an English-language folk song, catalogued as Roud 3973 and Child 107.
"Robin Hood and the Beggar" is a story in the Robin Hood canon which has survived as, among other forms, a late seventeenth-century English broadside ballad, and is a pair out of several ballads about the medieval folk hero that form part of the Child ballad collection, which is one of the most comprehensive collections of traditional English ballads. These two ballads share the same basic plot device in which the English folk hero Robin Hood meets a beggar.
The Suffolk Miracle is Child ballad 272 and is listed as #246 in the Roud Folk Song Index. Versions of the ballad have been collected from traditional singers in England, Ireland and North America. The song is also known as "The Holland Handkerchief" and sometimes as "The Lover's Ghost".
The (Bonnie) Rantin' Laddie or Lord Aboyne is a traditional Scottish folk ballad telling of the valiant rescue of his lover by a noble Highland lord.
