Child Ballad

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List Of Irish Ballads - Non-political - Murder Ballads
... Miss Brown" - a murder ballad from Dublin "Henry My Son" - the Irish version of "Lord Randall" (Child ballad #12), also a children's song "Weila Waile" - the Irish version of "The ...
Bishop Of Hereford (Robin Hood) - History
... The character first appears by this name in the ballad "Robin Hood and the Bishop of Hereford" ... Relying on later printed versions, Francis James Child collected the work as Child Ballad 144 ... Child regarded it as "far superior to most of the seventeenth-century broadsides" ...
Billy Blind
... It appears, however, only in ballads, where it frequently advises the characters ... In Child Ballad no 5c, Gil Brenton, it is Billy Blind that advises the hero that his bride is not the woman beside him, who is a virgin, but she is hiding in her bower and already pregnant ... In Child Ballad no 6, Willie's Lady, Willie's wife has been in labor and can not deliver because Willie's mother, a rank witch, is preventing her ...

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    “During the cattle drives, Texas cowboy music came into national significance. Its practical purpose is well known—it was used primarily to keep the herds quiet at night, for often a ballad sung loudly and continuously enough might prevent a stampede. However, the cowboy also sang because he liked to sing.... In this music of the range and trail is “the grayness of the prairies, the mournful minor note of a Texas norther, and a rhythm that fits the gait of the cowboy’s pony.””
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