Ballads and Popular Song

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• Annan Water — Annan Water — a Scottish ballad of a lover who drowns crossing the swollen Annan Water to reach his beloved.
• Barbara Allen's Cruelty — Barbara Allen's Cruelty — one of the most widely known English ballads, a tale of hard-hearted love and its consequences.
• Fair Margaret and Sweet William — Fair Margaret and Sweet William — a ballad of love, death, and supernatural visitation.
• Robin Hood and Allen-a-Dale — Robin Hood and Allen-a-Dale — Robin Hood rescues a young man's bride from a forced marriage to an old knight.
• Robin Hood's Death and Burial — Robin Hood's Death and Burial — the ballad of Robin Hood's final betrayal and death at Kirklees Priory.
• The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington — The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington — a ballad of faithful love rewarded after years of separation.
• The Banks o' Yarrow — The Banks o' Yarrow — a Scottish ballad of betrayal and murder by the banks of the Yarrow Water.
• The Fause Lover — The Fause Lover — a ballad of a maiden betrayed by a false lover who reveals himself as the Devil.
• The Mermaid — The Mermaid — a ballad of supernatural enchantment and drowning.
• The Twa Corbies — The Twa Corbies — a Scottish ballad in which two ravens discuss a slain knight whose body lies unattended.
• Waly, Waly, Love be Bonny — Waly, Waly, Love be Bonny — a Scottish lament of love's inconstancy and the sorrows of a forsaken lover.