"The Maid Freed from the Gallows" is one of many titles of a centuries-old folk song about a condemned maiden pleading for someone to buy her freedom...

Maid Marian is the heroine of the Robin Hood legend in English folklore, often taken to be his lover. She is not mentioned in the early, medieval versions...

The Gallows Pole is an alternative title for the folk song "The Maid Freed from the Gallows" Gallows pole or The Gallows Pole may refer to: The horizontal...

95, The Maid Freed from the Gallows has appeared in several recordings of blues and rock bands, notably by Lead Belly as "Gallis Pole" and on the album...

1620, and to have become the better-known version. William Hutton, in A Journey from Birmingham to London (1785), mentions "the old song of Chevy Chace"...

[citation needed] The Child Ballad The Maid Freed from the Gallows has been retold in fairy tale form, focusing on the exploits of the fiancé who must recover...

"The Bonnie Earl o' Moray" (Child 181, Roud 334) is a popular Scottish ballad, which may date from as early as the 17th century. The ballad touches on...

clip of "Go 'Way From My Window". Mister Lonely, Directed by Harmony Korine in 2008 – contains "The Maid Freed from the Gallows". The Boone–Tolliver Recordings...

from the beginning. Page credits the Fred Gerlach version as his inspiration, though the song has a much older history as "The Maid Freed from the Gallows"...

"The Maid Freed from the Gallows", a folk song sometimes given the title "Hangman" Hangman (video game), a 1978 game for the Atari 2600 based on the guessing...

young-man's tragedy" (c.1690), the earliest "Barbara Allen" text: In Scarlet Town, where I was bound, There was a fair maid dwelling, Whom I had chosen to...

tells Mary to let the child's father pick her cherries. At this point in most versions, the infant Jesus, from the womb, speaks to the tree and commands...

an updated arrangement of a traditional folk song called "The Maid Freed from the Gallows", inspired by a version recorded by Fred Gerlach. Page played...

film is titled), though neither song is included on the soundtrack. The Maid Freed From the Gallows by John Jacob Niles. My Life by Iris Dement. Korine's...

for Maid Marian's love. The Child ballad "Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne" dates from 1650 but its origins are much older than that, judging from the similarities...

the tune to which the ballad was to be sung as "The Fair Maid of Bristol", "Bateman", or "John True". These three tunes are also identified as "The Lady’s...

seen" and the maid "already that evening doesn't sleep alone". The Czech folk music group Spirituál kvintet adapted the melody of "The Three Ravens" to...

Thomas and Fair Eleanor", "The Maid Freed from the Gallows", "Fair Margaret and Sweet William", "The Wife of Usher's Well", "The Two Sisters", and "Matty...

originating from the Scottish Borders. It is also associated with a reel of the same name, also known as the Glasgow Reel. The story revolves around the rescue...

old maid-servant who had been long as the nursemaid being the one to teach Mrs Brown." In Minstrelsy, Walter Scott published a second part to the ballad...

president Charles William Eliot created the title of "Professor of English" especially for Child, freeing him from supervising oral recitations and correcting...

life. "The Maid Freed from the Gallows" depicts the condemned pleading for a stay of execution while the ransom may yet arrive. Child, F J (ed); The English...

comparing the former to soot and the other to the sun or milk. This can inspire taunts from the younger about the older's looks. However, in the Danish variant...

of the Eel). Several Appalachian musicians recorded the ballad; Jean Ritchie sang the Ritchie family version on the album Jean Ritchie: Ballads from her...

this article: Child's Ballads/21 "The Maid and the Palmer" (a.k.a. "The Maid of Coldingham" and "The Well Below The Valley") (Roud 2335, Child ballad...

actual event: In 1290, the Scottish heir to the throne, the seven-year-old Margaret, Maid of Norway, was being conveyed across the North Sea to Scotland...

Versions collected in England stem from the Northumbrian thread. Other versions follow the same basic story, but the antagonist has many different names...

given the name Sir Allan Clare; he is an armed knight, not a minstrel, and he is the brother of the Maid Marian. His sweetheart is Lady Christabel, the daughter...

" and "Robin Hood and Queen Katherine." Percy published several pieces from the manuscript, many of which were "repaired" or frankly rewritten, especially...

lai dating from the late 13th or early 14th century. It retells the story of Orpheus as a king who rescues his wife from the fairy king. The folk song...