Ballads and Songs
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- "Sir Patrick SpensSir Patrick Spens"Sir Patrick Spens" is one of the most popular of the Child Ballads , and is of Scottish origin.-Historicity:The events of the ballad are similar to, and may chronicle, an actual event: the bringing home of the Scottish queen Margaret, Maid of Norway across the North Sea in 1290...
" 3:53 - "The Butcher and the Tailor's WifeThe Butcher and the Tailor's Wife"The Butcher and the Tailor's Wife" also known as Benjamin Bowmaneer is a traditional English folk song.It dates from the mid-17th century and existing in several versions, for example The Tailor's Breeches, The Tailor and the Louse and the Bold Trooper...
" 1:51 - "The Duke of Marlborough" 4:04
- "Annan Water" 7:04
- "The Noble Lord Hawkins" 2:12
- "Don't You Be Foolish, Pray" 1:31
- "The Outlandish KnightLady Isabel and the Elf Knight"Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight" is the English common name representative of a very large class of European ballads. The subject matter is frequently associated with the genre of the Halewyn legends circulating in Europe...
" 4:11 - "Reynard the Fox" 2:17
- "Little MusgraveMatty Groves"Matty Groves" is an English folk ballad that describes an adulterous tryst between a man and a woman that is ended when the woman's husband discovers and kills them. It dates to at least the 17th century, and is one of the Child Ballads collected by 19th-century American scholar Francis James Child...
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