This volume, a model of typographical art, with its fine press work, stout paper, and excellent binding, gives us the pick and choice of the old English ballads. View Full Article in Timesmachine ...

Child published the songs he collected in a 10-volume opus called The English and Scottish Popular Ballads. It contains ... it's a source recording [or] some old version," Hamer says.

Until they met with old Carl Hood ; He comes for ill ... Most curious are many traits of the English (and Scandinavian) ballad, which may possibly (though we cannot regard it as made out) be ...

You might think 'English Songs and Ballads', compiled by TWH Crosland in ... of Christmas gift for a Ukrainian-speaking four-year-old. And I have sometimes wondered unkindly whether her gift ...

You might think English Songs and Ballads, compiled by TWH Crosland in ... of Christmas gift for a Ukrainian-speaking four-year-old. And I have sometimes wondered unkindly whether her gift ...

It was a shame, because Thompson is one of England's last great ballad singers ... of folk music's deep simplicity. The 54-year-old singer opened with "Dear Mary," one of several songs co-written ...