Ballads & folk songs w/ haunting theme.

Subject: Ballads & folk songs w/ haunting theme.
From: GUEST
Date: 15 Oct 20 - 10:39 AM

Searching for folk songs and ballads with a spooky theme. I am searching for songs for myself and others to use for a Zoom Samhain/All Souls/Halloween theme singing session. We want to stick to traditional songs. Lessor know songs would be fun to find. But I am open to suggestions and leads. Much thanks. I look forward to getting some ideas.

Rose

Subject: RE: Ballads & folk songs w/ haunting theme.
From: Deckman
Date: 15 Oct 20 - 12:12 PM

LOOK UP "THE HAUNTED HUNTER" AS RECORDED BY ROSILEE SORRELS. BOB(DECKMAN)NELSON

Subject: RE: Ballads & folk songs w/ haunting theme.
From: Deckman
Date: 15 Oct 20 - 12:14 PM

ALSO LOOK UP "THE FLYING DUTCHMAN". BOB(DECKMAN)NELSON

Subject: RE: Ballads & folk songs w/ haunting theme.
From: Deckman
Date: 15 Oct 20 - 12:15 PM

ABD LOOK UO … :THE UNQUET GRAVE". BOB NELSON

Subject: RE: Ballads & folk songs w/ haunting theme.
From: Deckman
Date: 15 Oct 20 - 12:16 PM

ALSO … "WITH HER HEAD TUCKED UNDERNIETH HER ARM". BOB

Subject: RE: Ballads & folk songs w/ haunting theme.
From: Steve Gardham
Date: 15 Oct 20 - 03:26 PM

Bramble Briar/ Bruton Town
Unquiet Grave
Cruel Mother

Subject: RE: Ballads & folk songs w/ haunting theme.
From: leeneia
Date: 15 Oct 20 - 04:00 PM

Sweet William and Lady Margot
She moved through the fair (a ghost but not scarey)

Subject: RE: Ballads & folk songs w/ haunting theme.
From: leeneia
Date: 15 Oct 20 - 04:02 PM

Jennifer Gentle and Roaemarie
Scarborough Fair

not ghosts but the devil. Still supernatural

Willie's Lady - the mother-in-law is a witch

Subject: RE: Ballads & folk songs w/ haunting theme.
From: Richard Mellish
Date: 15 Oct 20 - 04:31 PM

See previous threads such as this one. The Suffolk Miracle / Holland Handerchief is a good one. Also some of the night-visiting songs where the visiting lover turns out to be dead, and the ballad Sweet William's Ghost

Subject: RE: Ballads & folk songs w/ haunting theme.
From: Felipa
Date: 15 Oct 20 - 04:43 PM

Tam Lin https://mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=5686
Tam o' Shanter http://www.robertburns.org.uk/Assets/Poems_Songs/tamoshanter.htm
The Daemon Lover
The Highwayman

Subject: RE: Ballads & folk songs w/ haunting theme.
From: Felipa
Date: 15 Oct 20 - 04:44 PM

I suppose the Highwayman doesn't qualify as "traditional", and what about Robbie Burns?

Subject: RE: Ballads & folk songs w/ haunting theme.
From: Jack Campin
Date: 17 Oct 20 - 03:52 AM

The Grey Cock (Penguin Book of English Folk Songs).

Subject: RE: Ballads & folk songs w/ haunting theme.
From: GUEST,Julia L
Date: 19 Oct 20 - 10:41 PM

Alison Gross
The Wife of Ushers well
Lady Margaret
The Gay Green Gown
Sawney Bean
The Braw Shoon
Long Lankin

Subject: RE: Ballads & folk songs w/ haunting theme.
From: oldhippie
Date: 20 Oct 20 - 08:49 AM

Bringing Mary Home

Subject: RE: Ballads & folk songs w/ haunting theme.
From: Susan of DT
Date: 21 Oct 20 - 07:44 PM

I made a group for some of the supernatural/witch/devil/monster etc. songs from the Digital Tradition. There are so many more.

Subject: RE: Ballads & folk songs w/ haunting theme.
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 22 Oct 20 - 12:48 AM

thanks, Susan

Subject: RE: Ballads & folk songs w/ haunting theme.
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 22 Oct 20 - 01:49 AM

Mainly Norfolk; Finest Kind sang Bay of Biscay on their 2010 album For Honour & for Gain. They noted:

Ian [Robb] first heard this beautiful Irish supernatural night visiting song at the St Albans Folk Club in 1969, sung by Tim Hart and Maddy Prior. Tim and Maddy apparently had it from Geoff Woods, who collected it from James McKinley of Tranarossen, Donegal.

“Oh Willy dear, where are those blushes,
Those blushes I knew long years ago?”
“Oh Mary dear, the cold clay has them
I am only the ghost of your Willy-o.”

“Oh Mary dear, the dawn is coming.
Don't you think it is time for me to go?
I am leaving you quite broken-hearted
For to cross the Bay of Biscay-o.”