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• 209: Geordie
  Go to [[Child 209 Comment]] to read the background information. ...y by Such of London. The last stanza is no doubt influenced by a stanza in Child 78, ‘The Unquiet Grave’.
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• Francis J Child
  == The Child Ballads == ...ballad anthologies, the eventual format which evolved being in 3 sections, Child ballads, British broadside ballads and native American ballads.
  14 KB (1,968 words) - 00:12, 22 March 2009
• Cecil Sharp's Note 70 (1916)
  ...a version of a very ancient ballad, the history of which may be traced in Child’s ''English and Scottish Ballads'' (No. 227), and in Miss Gilchrist’s n ...is an addition, which became attached to an older and simpler form of the ballad. The facts, as they stand, admit of either interpretation.
  3 KB (589 words) - 21:44, 19 November 2018
• Ray Driscoll
  ...Ray was the song Wild, Wild Berry, a haunting reworking of the Lord Randal ballad. ...p; Ray also picked up songs from the streets of south London when he was a child and from singers in Shropshire a few years later.  He had returned to
  4 KB (672 words) - 12:23, 15 July 2009
• A. L. Lloyd
  *''Singing The Fishing - A [[Radio Ballads|Radio Ballad]]'', Argo Records (UK) LP, 1967 *''The Transports ''A Ballad Opera by Peter Bellamy)'', [[Free Reed]] (UK) 2LP, 1977
  7 KB (1,149 words) - 15:05, 7 February 2021
• Folkestone Murder, The
  ...te contains the text of ''The Foreigner's Downfall'', another contemporary ballad written about the murder, and which does not appear to have been preserved ...found, all in the bloom of the year,<br />"Mercy!" cried the poor innocent child with her eyes all filled with tears;<br />He drew the dagger into her breas
  9 KB (1,615 words) - 13:18, 1 March 2012
• Song
  English ballad broadsides by theme at the [https://digital.nls.uk/english-ballads/archive/ * [[Francis J Child]]
  10 KB (1,507 words) - 00:11, 8 May 2022
• Henry Burstow
  ...es - the words often exchanged for a pint of beer - while others came from ballad sheets bought at fairs. ...0 or 60 songs from the list which she considered to be “of the traditional ballad type” (English Traditional Songs and Carols p xi). Burstow visited Broadw
  23 KB (3,638 words) - 01:13, 29 June 2008
• Take 6 Transcription Programme: The Butterworth Archive, MS 6b
  W: Anne Gilchrist adds: See Child's Popular Ballads,<br> W: under 'The Suffolk Miracle', for full notes on this ballad,<br>
  44 KB (9,339 words) - 13:46, 20 April 2016

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