Hi,
Enthused by all the help I got with the Derry Down thread for which I am very grateful, my next paper to be published probably next year sometime will be under the above title.

I already have studied a longish list of burlesqued ballads but would welcome any further suggestions, but first just a brief reminder of what a burlesque is in this case: a composition that ridicules or satirises a serious piece of work. It can also satirise a whole genre rather than just a single other work. It can also be done without altering a single word of the original, in which case it is the actual performance that does the satirising. Not quite the same thing as a 'parody' as most parodies are just using the original as a vehicle and not necessarily taking a rise out of it.

Lord Lovell, Roud 48, Child 75.
George Collins, Roud 147, Child 85
Ah, my Love's Dead, Roud 466, Laws K17 burlesquing 'The Lover's Lament for her Sailor'
Villikins and Dinah, Roud 271, Laws M31, burlesquing Wm & D
Molly the Betrayed, Roud 15, Laws L36, burl. Cruel Ship's Carpenter
All Around my hat, Roud 22518, partly burl. Nobleman's Wedding, Roud 567
Green & Yella, Roud 10, Child 12, burl. Lord Randall
George Barnwell Roud 546
Billy Taylor, Roud 158, Laws N11, burl Wm Taylor.
Sam Hall, Roud 369, Laws L5, burl. Jack Hall
Lord Bateman, Roud 40, Child 53
Barbara Allen, Roud 54, Child 84.
Weelya Wolya, Roud 9, Child 20, burl The Cruel Mother.
Botany Bay II, Roud 300, burl. Farewell to Judges and Juries

The above are roughly in chronological order according to when the burlesquing probably occurred.