I've scanned a couple of out-of-copyright books of ballads already -- check out
http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/ballads/
Child would be a fine one to scan, but you'd have a copyright problem with Bronson's tunes. Although he isn't dead, so you could ask him for permission.
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