American Balladry from British BroadsidesAppendix I, British Broadside Ballads Current in American Tradition(by G. Malcolm Laws, Jr. - Published by The American Folklore Society, 1957) |
J: War Ballads |
| Laws #J01 | The Drummer Boy of Waterloo |
| Laws #J02 | Waterloo I |
| Laws #J03 | The Plains of Waterloo II |
| Laws #J04 | The Plains of Waterloo III |
| Laws #J05 | The Bonnie Bunch of Roses |
| Laws #J06 | Erin Far Away I |
| Laws #J07 | The Dying Soldier (Erin Far Away II) |
| Laws #J08 | The True Paddy's Song (The Kerry Recruit) |
| Laws #J09 | The Crimean War |
| Laws #J10 | The Heights of Alma |
| Laws #J11 | Patrick Sheehan |
| Laws #J12 | Donald Monroe |
| Laws #J13 | The Sons of Liberty |
| Laws #J14 | The Croppy Boy |
| Laws #J15 | James Ervin |
| Laws #J16 | Burke's Dream |
| Laws #J17 | Nelson's Victory at Trafalgar |
| Laws #J18 | The Battle of the Nile |
| Laws #J19 | The Little Fighting Chance |
| Laws #J20 | The Chesapeake and the Shannon I |
| Laws #J21 | The Chesapeake and the Shannon II |
| Laws #J22 | The Chesapeake and the Shannon III |
| Laws #J23 | When the Battle It Was Won (Young Jimmy and the Officer) |
K: Ballads of Sailors and the Sea |
| Laws #K01 | The Loss of the Ramillies |
| Laws #K02 | Ye Gentlemen of England I |
| Laws #K03 | Bay of Biscay (Ye Gentlemen of England II) |
| Laws #K04 | The Loss of the Amphritrite |
| Laws #K05 | Captain Burke |
| Laws #K06 | By the Lightning We Lost Our Sight |
| Laws #K07 | The Isle of Man Shore |
| Laws #K08 | The Rocks of Scilly |
| Laws #K09 | Lady Franklin's Lament (The Sailor's Dream) |
| Laws #K10 | The Sailor and His Bride |
| Laws #K11 | Sally Monroe |
| Laws #K12 | The Sailor Boy I |
| Laws #K13 | The Faithful Sailor Boy |
| Laws #K14 | Farewell, Charming Nancy |
| Laws #K15 | Thomas and Nancy |
| Laws #K16 | A Gay Spanish Maid |
| Laws #K17 | Down by the Sea Shore |
| Laws #K18 | Scarboro Sand |
| Laws #K19 | Susan Strayed the Briny Beach |
| Laws #K20 | Mary's Dream |
| Laws #K21 | The Greenland Whale Fishery |
| Laws #K22a | A & B Captain Glen (The Guilty Sea Captain A) |
| Laws #K22b | The New York Trader (The Guilty Sea Captain B) |
| Laws #K23 | The Flying Dutchman |
| Laws #K24 | The Merman (Pretty Fair Maid with a Tail) |
| Laws #K25 | The Banks of Newfoundland |
| Laws #K26 | Bold McCarthy (The City of Baltimore) |
| Laws #K27 | The Maid on the Shore |
| Laws #K28 | The Flying Cloud |
| Laws #K29 | The Bold Princess Royal |
| Laws #K30 | The Bold Pirate |
| Laws #K31 | Kelly the Pirate I |
| Laws #K32 | Kelly the Pirate II |
| Laws #K33 | High Barbary |
| Laws #K34 | Bold Daniels (The Roving Lizzie) |
| Laws #K35 | Captain Kidd |
| Laws #K36 | Johnny the Sailor (Green Beds) |
| Laws #K37 | Will You Wed with a Tarry Sailor? |
| Laws #K38 | The Saucy Sailor (Jack the Jolly Tar II) |
| Laws #K39 | Jack Tar |
| Laws #K40 | Jack the Jolly Tar I (Tarry Sailor) |
| Laws #K41 | Gold Watch |
| Laws #K42 | The Shirt and the Apron |
| Laws #K43 | Home, Dearie, Home (Bell-Bottom Trousers) |
L: Ballads of Crime and Criminals |
| Laws #L01 | The Yorkshire Bite |
| Laws #L02 | The Highwayman Outwitted |
| Laws #L03 | The Undaunted Female (The Box Upon Her Head) |
| Laws #L04 | The Three Butchers |
| Laws #L05 | Sam Hall (Jack Hall) |
| Laws #L06 | Jack Sheppard |
| Laws #L07 | Brennan on the Moor |
| Laws #L08 | My Bonny Black Bess I |
| Laws #L09 | Bonny Black Bess II |
| Laws #L10 | Dick Turpin and the Lawyer |
| Laws #L11 | Gallows |
| Laws #L12 | The Rambling Boy |
| Laws #L13a | Whiskey in the Jar (The Irish Robber A) |
| Laws #L13b | The Irish Robber B (McCollister) |
| Laws #L14 | The Poacher's Fate |
| Laws #L15 | The Irish Mail Robber |
| Laws #L16a | Botany Bay A |
| Laws #L16b | The Boston Burglar (Botany Bay B) |
| Laws #L17 | Jack Williams |
| Laws #L18 | Van Diemans' Land |
| Laws #L19 | I Am a Wild Young Irish Boy |
| Laws #L20 | The Wild Colonial Boy |
| Laws #L21 | Johnny Troy |
| Laws #L22 | Jack Donohue |
| Laws #L28?? | Wild Colonial Boy?? |
M: Ballads of Family Opposition to Lovers |
| Laws #M01 | Early, Early in the Spring |
| Laws #M02 | Johnny Doyle |
| Laws #M03 | Charming Beauty Bright |
| Laws #M04 | The Drowsy Sleeper |
| Laws #M05 | Henry Connors |
| Laws #M06 | Erin's Lonely Home |
| Laws #M07 | William and Harriet |
| Laws #M08 | Riley's Farewell (Riley to America) |
| Laws #M09 | William Riley's Courtship |
| Laws #M10 | William (Willie) Riley (Riley's Trial) |
| Laws #M11 | My Father's Servant Boy |
| Laws #M12 | The Apprentice Boy |
| Laws #M13 | Locks and Bolts (I Dreamed of My True Love) |
| Laws #M14 | The Bonny Laboring Boy |
| Laws #M15 | The Iron Door |
| Laws #M16 | Mary Acklin (The Squire's Young Daughter) |
| Laws #M17 | Mary Neal |
| Laws #M18 | Pretty Betsy |
| Laws #M19 | Young Sailor Bold (The Rich Merchant's Daughter) |
| Laws #M20 | Betsy Is a Beauty Fair (Johnny and Betsy) |
| Laws #M21 | The Merchant's Only Son |
| Laws #M22 | The Bonny Sailor Boy (Jolly Young Sailor Boy) |
| Laws #M23 | Gay Girl Marie |
| Laws #M24 | The Jolly Ploughboy (Little Plowing Boy) |
| Laws #M25 | The Banks of Sweet Dundee (Undaunted Mary) |
| Laws #M26 | The New River Shore (The Red River Shore) |
| Laws #M27 | The Bold Soldier |
| Laws #M28 | The Tan-Yard Side |
| Laws #M29 | Beautiful Susan |
| Laws #M30 | Farewell, Dear Rosanna |
| Laws #M31a | William and Dinah A |
| Laws #M31b | Villikins and His Dinah (William and Dinah B) |
| Laws #M32 | The Bramble Briar (In Bruton Town, In Seaport Town, The Merchant's Daughter) |
| Laws #M33 | The Constant Farmer's Son |
| Laws #M34 | Edwin in the Lowlands |
| Laws #M35 | Lovely Willie |
| Laws #M36 | American Woods |
| Laws #M37 | The Nightingale |
| Laws #M38 | Nancy of Yarmough (Jemmy and Nancy) |
| Laws #M39 | Sir Neil and Glengyle |
N: Ballads of Lovers' Disguises and Tricks |
| Laws #N01 | The Duke of Argyle |
| Laws #N02 | The Paisley Officer (India's Burning Sands) |
| Laws #N03 | Female Sailor Bold |
| Laws #N04 | The Female Warrior (Pretty Polly) |
| Laws #N05 | The Lady Leroy |
| Laws #N06 | Disguised Sailor |
| Laws #N07 | Jack Monroe (Jackie Frazier; The Wars of Germany) |
| Laws #N08 | William and Nancy I (Lisbon; Men's Clothing I'll Put On I) |
| Laws #N09 | The Banks of the Nile |
| Laws #N10 | The Silk Merchant's Daughter |
| Laws #N11 | William Taylor |
| Laws #N12 | The Maid in Sorrow (Short Jacket) |
| Laws #N13 | The Handsome Cabin Boy (The Female Cabin Boy) |
| Laws #N14 | Polly Oliver |
| Laws #N15 | The Noble Duke |
| Laws #N16 | The Rose of Britain's Isle |
| Laws #N17 | Caroline and Her Young Sailor Bold (Young Sailor Bold II) |
| Laws #N18 | The Prince of Morocco (The Sailor Boy II) |
| Laws #N19 | The Blaeberry Courtship |
| Laws #N20 | The Golden Glove (Dog and Gun) |
| Laws #N21 | The Female Highwayman |
| Laws #N22 | Kate and Her Horns |
| Laws #N23 | The Half-Hitch |
| Laws #N24 | Katey Morey |
| Laws #N25 | Love in a Tub (The Merchant Outwitted) |
| Laws #N26 | The Lawyer Outwitted |
| Laws #N27 | The Blind Beggar's Daughter of Bednall Green |
| Laws #N28 | Willie and Mary (Little Mary, the Sailor's Bride) |
| Laws #N29 | A Seaman and His Love (The Welcome Sailor) |
| Laws #N30 | William Hall (The Brisk Young Farmer) |
| Laws #N31 | Waterloo II |
| Laws #N32 | The Plains of Waterloo I |
| Laws #N33 | Lovely Nancy I |
| Laws #N34 | Janie on the Moor |
| Laws #N35 | The Dark Eyed Sailor (Fair Phoebe and Her Dark-Eyed Sailor) |
| Laws #N36 | John (George) Riley I |
| Laws #N37 | John (George) Riley II (YOung Riley) |
| Laws #N38 | The Mantle So Green |
| Laws #N39 | MacDonald's Return to Glencoe (The Pride of Glencoe) |
| Laws #N40 | The Banks of Claudy |
| Laws #N41 | The Lady of the Lake (The Banks of Clyde) |
| Laws #N42 | Pretty Fair Maid (The Maiden in the Garden) |
| Laws #N43 | Johnny German |
O: Ballads of Faithful Lovers |
| Laws #O01 | The Black Water Side |
| Laws #O02 | The Brown Girl |
| Laws #O03 | The Foggy Dew |
| Laws #O04 | The Gypsy Maid (The Gypsy's Wedding Day) |
| Laws #O05 | Ellen the Fair |
| Laws #O06 | The Lass of Glenshee |
| Laws #O07 | Cupid the Plowboy |
| Laws #O08 | The Sailor and the Shepherdess |
| Laws #O09 | Branded Lambs |
| Laws #O10 | Pretty Bessy the Milkmaid (Blackberry Fold) |
| Laws #O11 | Two Rigs of Rye |
| Laws #O12 | Robin Tamson's Smiddy |
| Laws #O13 | The Jolly Young Sailor and the Beautiful Queen |
| Laws #O14 | Pretty Polly (Moll Boy's Courtship) |
| Laws #O15 | The Green Mossy Banks of the Lea |
| Laws #O16 | King David Had a Pleasant Dream (The Slighted Soldier) |
| Laws #O17 | Seventeen Come Sunday |
| Laws #O18 | The Bonny Wee Window |
| Laws #O19 | Rich Amerikay |
| Laws #O20 | When a Man's in Love |
| Laws #O21 | Barney and Katie |
| Laws #O22 | Two Lovers Discoursing |
| Laws #O23 | When Will Ye Gang Awa' (Huntingtower) |
| Laws #O24 | The Bold Fisherman |
| Laws #O25 | The Lady of Carlisle |
| Laws #O25 | Lady's Fan |
| Laws #O26 | The Turkish Lady (The Turkish Rover) |
| Laws #O27 | Jolly Roving Tar |
| Laws #O28 | Black-Eyed Susan (Dark-Eyed Susan) |
| Laws #O29 | Erin's Flowery Vale(The Irish Girl's Lament) |
| Laws #O30 | Jimmy and His Own True Love |
| Laws #O31 | Soldier Boy |
| Laws #O32 | The Bold Privateer |
| Laws #O33 | The Girl Volunteer |
| Laws #O34 | Burns and His Highland Mary |
| Laws #O35 | A-Growing (He's Young Bue He's A-Growing; The Trees They Do Grow High) |
| Laws #O36 | Molly Bawn (Shooting of His Dear) |
| Laws #O37 | The Silvery Tide |
| Laws #O38 | Fair Fanny Moore |
| Laws #O39 | The Sheffield Apprentice |
| Laws #O40 | The Lady and the Farmer's Son |
| Laws #O41 | The Constant Lovers |
P: Ballads of Unfaithful Lovers |
| Laws #P01 a&b | The Girl I Left Behind |
| Laws #P02 | The Green Bushes |
| Laws #P03 | No Sign of a Marriage |
| Laws #P04 | The Sailor and the Tailor |
| Laws #P05 | William and Nancy II (Courting Too Slow) |
| Laws #P06 | Pretty Susan, the Pride of Kildare |
| Laws #P07 | The Foot of the Mountain Brow |
| Laws #P08 | The Gray Mare (Rogers the Miller) |
| Laws #P09 | A Rich Irish Lady (The Fair Damsel from London) |
| Laws #P10 | The Rejected Lover |
| Laws #P11 | Nancy I |
| Laws #P12 | Nancy II (The Rambling Beauty) |
| Laws #P13 | Peggy and the Soldier (The Lame Soldier) |
| Laws #P14 | The Nightingale (One Morning in May) |
| Laws #P15 | Rinordine |
| Laws #P16 | The Dawning of the Day |
| Laws #P17 | Blow the Candle Out |
| Laws #P18 | Pretty Little Miss |
| Laws #P19 | Tripping Over the Lea |
| Laws #P20 | The Fatal Snowstorm |
| Laws #P21 | Mary of the Wild Moor |
| Laws #P22 | The Lovely Banks of Boyne |
| Laws #P23 | Bold Lover Gay |
| Laws #P24 | The Butcher Boy |
| Laws #P25 | Love Has Brought Me to Despair |
| Laws #P26 | The Bonny Young Irish Boy |
| Laws #P27 | Caroline of Edinburgh Town |
| Laws #P28 | Bessie of Ballington Brae |
| Laws #P29 | The Lily of the West |
| Laws #P30 | Oxford City |
| Laws #P31 | The Nobleman's Wedding (The Faultless Bride; The Love Token) |
| Laws #P32 | A Gentleman of Exeter (The Perfured Maid |
| Laws #P33 | Susannah Clargy |
| Laws #P34a | The Sailor's Tragedy (The Sailor and the Ghost A) |
| Laws #P34b | The Sailor's Tragedy (The Sailor and the Ghost B) |
| Laws #P35 | The Wexford Girl (The Oxford Girl; The Cruel Miller) |
| Laws #P36a | The Cruel Ship's Carpenter A (The Gosport Tragedy) |
| Laws #P36b | The Cruel Ship's Carpenter B (Pretty Polly) |
| Laws #P37 | The Old Oak Tree |
| Laws #P38 | James MacDonald |
| Laws #P39 | Pat O'Brien |
| Laws #P40 | Jessie Munroe |
Q: Humorous and Miscellaneous Ballads |
| Laws #Q01 | Father Grumble |
| Laws #Q02 | The Old Woman of Slapsadam |
| Laws #Q03 | Johnny Sands |
| Laws #Q04 | Devilish Mary |
| Laws #Q05 | The Dumb Wife |
| Laws #Q06 | The Holly Twig |
| Laws #Q07 | A Rich Old Miser |
| Laws #Q08 | The Boatsman and the Chest |
| Laws #Q09 | Will the Weaver |
| Laws #Q10 | The Major and the Weaver |
| Laws #Q11 | The Dog in the Closet |
| Laws #Q12 | The Sea Captain and the Squire |
| Laws #Q13 | The Oyster Girl |
| Laws #Q14 | The Monkey Turned Barber |
| Laws #Q15 | The Love-of-God Shave |
| Laws #Q16 | Courting in the Kitchen |
| Laws #Q17 | Finnegan's Wake |
| Laws #Q18 | The Irish Wake |
| Laws #Q19 | Doran's Ass |
| Laws #Q20 | Duncan Campbell (Erin-Go-Bragh) |
| Laws #Q21 | The Miller's Will |
| Laws #Q22 | Skewball |
| Laws #Q23 | Creeping Jane |
| Laws #Q24 | Pat Malloy |
| Laws #Q25 | Tom O'Neill |
| Laws #Q26 | The Bad Girl's Lament |
| Laws #Q27 | Erin's Green Shore |
| Laws #Q28 | The Soldier's Poor Little Boy |
| Laws #Q29 | The Fisherman's Boy |
| Laws #Q30 | The Farmer's Boy |
| Laws #Q31 | The Lost Lady Found |
| Laws #Q32 | The Romish Lady |
| Laws #Q33 | The Lake of Cool Finn (Willie Leonard) |
| Laws #Q34 | The Children in the Wood |
| Laws #Q35 | The High Blantyre Explosion |
| Laws #Q36 | The Miner's Doom |
| Laws #Q37 | The Factor's Garland |
| Laws #Q38 | The Valiant London Prentice |
| Laws #Q39 | The Building of Solomon's Temple |