The Child Ballads are 305 traditional ballads from England and Scotland, and their American variants, anthologized by Francis James Child during the second...

The Child Ballads is the colloquial name given to a collection of 305 ballads collected in the 19th century by Francis James Child and originally published...

Child published his English and Scottish Ballads which included a volume grouping all the Robin Hood ballads in one volume, including all the ballads...

known today for his collection of English and Scottish ballads now known as the Child Ballads. Child was Boylston professor of rhetoric and oratory at Harvard...

"The Ballad of Chevy Chase" is an English ballad, catalogued as Child Ballad 162 (Roud 223). There are two extant ballads under this title, both of which...

Child Ballads is a studio album by American singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell and musician Jefferson Hamer, released on February 11, 2013, by Wilderland...

Border ballads are a group of songs in the long tradition of balladry collected from the Anglo-Scottish border. Like all traditional ballads, they were...

Child ballad 128. He also listed several other ballads featuring Will Scarlet, sometimes in a very minor role. In Robin Hood's Delight (Child Ballad 136)...

a poignant but solemn manner. Ballads are generally melodic enough to get the listener's attention. Sentimental ballads are found in most music genres...

rare if not unheard-of for a ballad to contain exactly 13 lines. Additionally, couplets rarely appear in ballads. Many ballads were written and sold as single-sheet...

English and Scottish Popular Ballads (The Child Ballads) Vol 1 (1956) The English and Scottish Popular Ballads (The Child Ballads) Vol 2 (1956) The English...

James Child collected fourteen traditional variants in The English and Scottish Popular Ballads in the nineteenth century. (Another Child ballad, Burd...

English and Scottish Popular Ballads/Part 1/Chapter 26 "The Three Ravens" (Roud 5, Child 26) is an English folk ballad, printed in the songbook Melismata...

Child's collection of The English and Scottish Popular Ballads (Child's Ballads), as Child Ballad 167. However, over the years, through oral tradition,...

studio albums, including Hadestown (2010), Young Man in America (2012), Child Ballads (2013), and Anaïs Mitchell (2022). She developed her album Hadestown...

is one of the most popular of the Child Ballads (No. 58) (Roud 41), and is of Scottish origin. It is a maritime ballad about a disaster at sea. Sir Patrick...

murder ballads such as "The Twa Sisters" (also known as "Binnorie" or "Minnorie" Child Ballad #10). Daniel A. Cohen comments that the murder ballads should...

subsumes all the previous printed sources known to Francis James Child (the Child Ballads) and includes recordings from 1900 to 1975. Until early 2006, the...

case in these ballads, Robin Hood loses the fight to comical effect, and Marian only recognizes him when he asks for quarter. This ballad is in the "Earl...

related to this article: Child's Ballads/59 Sir Aldingar (Roud 3969, Child 59) is an English-language folk song. Francis James Child collected three variants...

Son?" This ballad may not be complete in itself. Large portions of the ballad are also found in the longer ballads "The Twa Brothers" (Child 49) and "Lizie...

Wikisource has original text related to this article: Child's Ballads/33 "Kempy Kay" (Roud 32, Child 33) is an English-language folk song. A deformed suitor...

according to Child. Absent in the ballads also is the motif of the queen losing her beauty (Loathly lady motif): Child considered that the "ballad is no worse...

Francis James Child, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, v 1, p 209-10, Dover Publications, New York 1965. "Jean Ritchie: Ballads from her Appalachian...

Lamentable Ballad of the Little Musgrove, and the Lady Barnet". ballads.bodleian.ox.ac.uk. Bodleian Ballads Online. Retrieved 3 March 2017. "Ballads Online"...

as has also been done with Child Ballad numbers and Laws numbers. This list (like the article List of the Child Ballads) also serves as a link to articles...

Cherry-Tree Carol" (Roud 453) is a ballad with the rare distinction of being both a Christmas carol and one of the Child Ballads (no. 54). The song itself is...

of the ballad. In addition to the eight collected by Francis James Child in volume IV of his anthology The English and Scottish Popular Ballads (versions...

ballads in its first episode. Cornkister The Greig-Duncan Folk Song Collection Mess John Wollstadt, Lynn Marie (2001). Women and Ballads and Ballad Women:...

English folklore. He first appears in "Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne" (Child Ballad 118), where he is an assassin who attempts to kill Robin Hood but is...