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Track listing

  1. "The Lass Of London City" 2:08
  2. "Napoleon's Lamentation" 2:53
  3. "The Bonny Bunch Of Roses
    The Bonny Bunch of Roses
    "The Bonny Bunch of Roses" , also called "Bonaparte's Retreat", is an English folk song.The earliest known version of the tune is in William Christie's "Tradition Ballad Airs" , but there is another tune, of Irish origin. There is an obvious difficulty in identifying the narrator's voice...

    " 6:05
  4. "Edward
    Edward (ballad)
    Edward is a traditional murder ballad existing in several variants. In English its versions were collected by Francis James Child as Child ballad number 13.-Synopsis:...

    " 3:29
  5. "The Outlandish Knight
    Lady 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...

    " 3:35
  6. "William And Nancy's Parting" 1:31
  7. "Lord Bateman
    Young Beichan
    "Young Beichan" is a ballad, which with a number of variants and names such as "Lord Baker", "Lord Bateman", and "Young Bekie", was collected by Francis James Child in the late nineteenth century, and is included in the Child ballad as number 53 .-Synopsis:Beichan is born in London but travels to...

    " 4:11
  8. "Dance To Your Daddy" 2:17
  9. "The Two Brothers
    The Twa Brothers
    "The Twa Brothers" is Child ballad 49, existing in many variants.-Synopsis:Two brothers are wrestling when a blade that one of them is carrying mortally wounds the other; occasionally, one of them stabs the other intentionally....

    " 3:52
  10. "The Banks Of Green Willow" 2:51
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