Lady Maisry (Roud 45, Child 65), also known as "Bonnie Susie Cleland", is an English-language folk song that exists in many variants. The heroine—Maisry...
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Willie and Lady Maisry (Roud 198, Child 70), also known as William and Lady Marjorie, is an English-language traditional folk song, likely originating...
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most commonly around Whitsun) and is sometimes associated with the Queen or Lady of May or May Day. In The Quest for Robin Hood, Jim Lees suggests that Maid...
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Girl The Lads of Wamphray Lady Alice Lady Diamond Lady Elspat Lady Isabel Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight Lady Maisry The Laily Worm and the Machrel of the...
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Girl The Lads of Wamphray Lady Alice Lady Diamond Lady Elspat Lady Isabel Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight Lady Maisry The Laily Worm and the Machrel of the...
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slain the Earl o' Moray, and Lady Mondegreen." She said that she always imagined the Earl dying beside his faithful lover "Lady Mondegreen", and refused to...
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Summer's Lease, by Eluki bes Shahar (Rosemary Edghill) [citation needed] ”The Lady and the Fox,” by Kelly Link, in My True Love Gave to Me, ed. Stephanie Perkins...
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Girl The Lads of Wamphray Lady Alice Lady Diamond Lady Elspat Lady Isabel Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight Lady Maisry The Laily Worm and the Machrel of the...
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Girl The Lads of Wamphray Lady Alice Lady Diamond Lady Elspat Lady Isabel Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight Lady Maisry The Laily Worm and the Machrel of the...
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Matty Groves (redirect from Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard)
related to this article: Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard "Matty Groves", also known as "Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard" or "Little Musgrave", is a ballad...
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But his hawk, his hound, and lady fair. ‘His hound is to the hunting gane, His hawk to fetch the wild-fowl hame, His lady's taen another mate, So we may...
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Girl The Lads of Wamphray Lady Alice Lady Diamond Lady Elspat Lady Isabel Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight Lady Maisry The Laily Worm and the Machrel of the...
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a minstrel, and he is the brother of the Maid Marian. His sweetheart is Lady Christabel, the daughter of the Sheriff of Nottingham, who wants to give...
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Girl The Lads of Wamphray Lady Alice Lady Diamond Lady Elspat Lady Isabel Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight Lady Maisry The Laily Worm and the Machrel of the...
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” The ballad fragment Hardyknute (1719), attributed to Elizabeth Halket, Lady Wardlaw, appears to draw phrases from a version of Sir Patrick Spens. Samuel...
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Girl The Lads of Wamphray Lady Alice Lady Diamond Lady Elspat Lady Isabel Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight Lady Maisry The Laily Worm and the Machrel of the...
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Girl The Lads of Wamphray Lady Alice Lady Diamond Lady Elspat Lady Isabel Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight Lady Maisry The Laily Worm and the Machrel of the...
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popular throughout Britain, Ireland and North America. It concerns a rich lady who runs off to join the gypsies (or one gypsy). Common alternative names...
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in 2022. Lady Maisery's name is based on one that appears in a number of traditional folk songs, most notably the Child ballad "Lady Maisry", but also...
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his horn blowing, and he appears at her side and proposes tasks which the lady must perform in order to be accepted as his lover. The first verse usually...
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English ones his lady "has come too late" and he is executed. A man is killed in battle and Geordie is going to be executed. When his lady hears of this...
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Girl The Lads of Wamphray Lady Alice Lady Diamond Lady Elspat Lady Isabel Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight Lady Maisry The Laily Worm and the Machrel of the...
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lyrics to "Dives and Lazarus" with this tune attested by Hipkins and the lady from Westminster, stating that "they suit it so well that there is a great...
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"Bateman", or "John True". These three tunes are also identified as "The Lady’s Fall", which was notably the tune for "Bateman’s Tragedy" (Roud 22132) and...
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father may mean they will return as ghosts. Buell Kazee recorded the song as "Lady Gay" in 1928. Recorded by John Jacob Niles in 1941 on Victor 2173-A [Digitised...
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Girl The Lads of Wamphray Lady Alice Lady Diamond Lady Elspat Lady Isabel Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight Lady Maisry The Laily Worm and the Machrel of the...
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The Great Silkie of Sule Skerry (section Lady Odivere)
expanded version of the ballad called "The Lady Odivere". "The Great Silkie of Sule Skerry" was collected from a lady from Snarra Voe, Shetland, and 7 verses...
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Girl The Lads of Wamphray Lady Alice Lady Diamond Lady Elspat Lady Isabel Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight Lady Maisry The Laily Worm and the Machrel of the...
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other variants, she reticently identifies herself only as "lady of an unco land" (B), or "lady gay" (E), much like the medieval romance. But since the unnamed...
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Girl The Lads of Wamphray Lady Alice Lady Diamond Lady Elspat Lady Isabel Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight Lady Maisry The Laily Worm and the Machrel of the...
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