Ballads - Poems that tell stories in song

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Casey at the Bat: A Ballad of the Republic Sung in the Year 1888
Casey at the Bat: A Ballad of the Republic Sung in the Year 1888 4.06 avg rating — 2,696 ratings
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A Treasury of Southern Folklore: Stories, Ballads, Traditions, and Folkways of the People of the South
A Treasury of Southern Folklore: Stories, Ballads, Traditions, and Folkways of the People of the South 3.92 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Singing Family of the Cumberlands
Singing Family of the Cumberlands 4.01 avg rating — 86 ratings
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Wayfaring Strangers: The Musical Voyage from Scotland and Ulster to Appalachia
Wayfaring Strangers: The Musical Voyage from Scotland and Ulster to Appalachia 4.28 avg rating — 201 ratings
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The Ballad of One-Eyed Mike
The Ballad of One-Eyed Mike 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads
Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads 3.52 avg rating — 54 ratings
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Dissecting Room Ballads From The Dublin Schools Of Medicine Fifty Years Ago
Dissecting Room Ballads From The Dublin Schools Of Medicine Fifty Years Ago 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Ballad of William Sycamore
The Ballad of William Sycamore really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The English and Scottish Popular Ballads
The English and Scottish Popular Ballads 4.67 avg rating — 85 ratings
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Romantic Ballads and Poems of Phantasy
Romantic Ballads and Poems of Phantasy 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Ballad of East and West
The Ballad of East and West 3.69 avg rating — 16 ratings
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American Favorite Ballads - Tunes and Songs As Sung by Pete Seeger
American Favorite Ballads - Tunes and Songs As Sung by Pete Seeger 4.64 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Ballads and songs of Peterloo
Ballads and songs of Peterloo it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Bridal Ballad
Bridal Ballad 3.50 avg rating — 137 ratings
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Polly Vaughn: A Traditional British Ballad
Polly Vaughn: A Traditional British Ballad 3.36 avg rating — 14 ratings
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The Pack of Autolycus: Or, Strange and Terrible News of Ghosts, Apparitions, Monstrous Births, Showers of Wheat, Judgments of God, and Other Prodigious and Fearful Happenings as Told in Broadside Ballads of the Years 1624-1693
The Pack of Autolycus: Or, Strange and Terrible News of Ghosts, Apparitions, Monstrous Births, Showers of Wheat, Judgments of God, and Other Prodigious and Fearful Happenings as Told in Broadside Ballads of the Years 1624-1693 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Ballad of Tom Dooley (Ballad, #9)
The Ballad of Tom Dooley (Ballad, #9) 3.68 avg rating — 3,154 ratings
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The Ballad of the Burglar of Babylon
The Ballad of the Burglar of Babylon really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The Book of Ballads
The Book of Ballads 3.95 avg rating — 1,076 ratings
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Pre-Raphaelite Ballads
Pre-Raphaelite Ballads 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Ballad of the Flim-Flam Man
The Ballad of the Flim-Flam Man
by: Guy Owen
3.88 avg rating — 52 ratings
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The Wife of Usher's Well, A Traditional Border Ballad
The Wife of Usher's Well, A Traditional Border Ballad
by: Anonymous
3.83 avg rating — 12 ratings
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The Rose and the Briar: Death, Love, and Liberty in the American Ballad
The Rose and the Briar: Death, Love, and Liberty in the American Ballad 3.93 avg rating — 193 ratings
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The Minstrel of the North: Or, Cumbrian Legends. Being a Poetical Miscellany of Legendary, Gothic, and Romantic Tales
The Minstrel of the North: Or, Cumbrian Legends. Being a Poetical Miscellany of Legendary, Gothic, and Romantic Tales liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Twenty Thousand Roads: The Ballad of Gram Parsons and His Cosmic American Music
Twenty Thousand Roads: The Ballad of Gram Parsons and His Cosmic American Music 4.13 avg rating — 980 ratings
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Lord Randall, A Traditional Border Ballad
Lord Randall, A Traditional Border Ballad
by: Anonymous
4.07 avg rating — 15 ratings
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The Viking Book of Folk Ballads of the English-Speaking World
The Viking Book of Folk Ballads of the English-Speaking World 3.64 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Prepare to shed them now: The ballads of George R. Sims;
Prepare to shed them now: The ballads of George R. Sims; 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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King's Mountain: A Ballad Novel (Ballad Novels, 10)
King's Mountain: A Ballad Novel (Ballad Novels, 10) 3.63 avg rating — 1,292 ratings
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A Ballade of Suicide
A Ballade of Suicide 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
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"Lord Randal": And Other British Ballads
"Lord Randal": And Other British Ballads 3.45 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Blue Law Ballads: A Purge for Puritans
Blue Law Ballads: A Purge for Puritans 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Satan Is Real: The Ballad of the Louvin Brothers
Satan Is Real: The Ballad of the Louvin Brothers 4.23 avg rating — 1,331 ratings
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Celtic Ballads and Chansons
Celtic Ballads and Chansons 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Ballad of the White Horse
The Ballad of the White Horse 4.26 avg rating — 1,985 ratings
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The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Poems
The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Poems 4.13 avg rating — 1,880 ratings
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Barroom Ballads
Barroom Ballads 2.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Oooh, You New York Girls
Oooh, You New York Girls 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter (Ballad, #2)
The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter (Ballad, #2) 3.98 avg rating — 5,557 ratings
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The Ballad of Reading Gaol
The Ballad of Reading Gaol 4.27 avg rating — 7,385 ratings
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Soldier Songs and Home-Front Ballads of the Civil War
Soldier Songs and Home-Front Ballads of the Civil War really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Ballads of a Book-Worm: Being a Rhythmic Record of Thoughts, Fancies Adventures A-Collecting
Ballads of a Book-Worm: Being a Rhythmic Record of Thoughts, Fancies Adventures A-Collecting 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Rosewood Casket (Ballad, #4)
The Rosewood Casket (Ballad, #4) 4.04 avg rating — 3,918 ratings
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The New Penguin Book of English Folk Songs
The New Penguin Book of English Folk Songs 4.36 avg rating — 104 ratings
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"With His Pistol in His Hand": A Border Ballad and Its Hero
"With His Pistol in His Hand": A Border Ballad and Its Hero 3.80 avg rating — 343 ratings
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Ballads of Square-Toed Americans
Ballads of Square-Toed Americans it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Ballad of Frankie Silver (Ballad, #5)
The Ballad of Frankie Silver (Ballad, #5) 3.95 avg rating — 5,513 ratings
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Ballads of the Lords of New Spain: The Codex Romances de los Senores de la Nueva Espana (The Willism & Bettye Nowlin Series in Art, History, and Culture of the Western Hemisphere)
Ballads of the Lords of New Spain: The Codex Romances de los Senores de la Nueva Espana (The Willism & Bettye Nowlin Series in Art, History, and Culture of the Western Hemisphere) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Blarney Ballads
The Blarney Ballads it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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She Walks These Hills (Ballad, #3)
She Walks These Hills (Ballad, #3) 4.11 avg rating — 4,406 ratings
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Grand'ther Baldwin's Thanksgiving with Other Ballads and Poems
Grand'ther Baldwin's Thanksgiving with Other Ballads and Poems 3.50 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Woody Guthrie and the Dust Bowl Ballads
Woody Guthrie and the Dust Bowl Ballads 3.98 avg rating — 337 ratings
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Rising Early: Story Poems and Ballads of the Twentieth Century
Rising Early: Story Poems and Ballads of the Twentieth Century it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Laura Ingalls Wilder Songbook: Favorite Songs from the Little House Books
The Laura Ingalls Wilder Songbook: Favorite Songs from the Little House Books 4.20 avg rating — 46 ratings
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The Burl Ives Song Book
The Burl Ives Song Book
by: Burl Ives
4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Ballad Book of John Jacob Niles
The Ballad Book of John Jacob Niles 4.76 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Miracles and Murders: An Introductory Anthology of Breton Ballads (British Academy Monographs)
Miracles and Murders: An Introductory Anthology of Breton Ballads (British Academy Monographs) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Damnable Practises: Witches, Dangerous Women, and Music in Seventeenth-Century English Broadside Ballads
Damnable Practises: Witches, Dangerous Women, and Music in Seventeenth-Century English Broadside Ballads 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Ballads And Songs Of The Shanty Boy
Ballads And Songs Of The Shanty Boy 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Bonny Earl of Murray: The Man, the Murder, the Ballad
The Bonny Earl of Murray: The Man, the Murder, the Ballad 3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Barbed Wire Ballads
Barbed Wire Ballads 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Some British Ballads - Illustrated by Arthur Rackham
Some British Ballads - Illustrated by Arthur Rackham
by: Anonymous
4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Bab Ballads with which are included Songs of a Savoyard
The Bab Ballads with which are included Songs of a Savoyard 3.67 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Naomi Wise: Creation, Re-Creation, and Continuity in an American Ballad Tradition
Naomi Wise: Creation, Re-Creation, and Continuity in an American Ballad Tradition 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Fairy Family: A Series Of Ballads And Metrical Tales Illustrating The Fairy Faith Of Europe
The Fairy Family: A Series Of Ballads And Metrical Tales Illustrating The Fairy Faith Of Europe it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Treasury of Railroad Folklore: The Stories, Tall Tales, Traditions, Ballads and Songs of the American Railroad Man
Treasury of Railroad Folklore: The Stories, Tall Tales, Traditions, Ballads and Songs of the American Railroad Man 4.23 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Hans Breitmann's Ballads
Hans Breitmann's Ballads 3.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
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CrimeSong: True Crime Stories From Southern Murder Ballads
CrimeSong: True Crime Stories From Southern Murder Ballads 3.80 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Chanteys and Ballads; Sea-Chanteys, Tramp-Ballads and Other Ballads and Poems
Chanteys and Ballads; Sea-Chanteys, Tramp-Ballads and Other Ballads and Poems it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Bawdy Ballads and Dirty Ditties from Ontario and Newfoundland
Bawdy Ballads and Dirty Ditties from Ontario and Newfoundland 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Buccaneer Ballads
Buccaneer Ballads 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Songs and Ballads of the Maine Lumberjacks with Other Songs from Maine
Songs and Ballads of the Maine Lumberjacks with Other Songs from Maine 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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American Ballads and Folk Songs (Dover Books On Music: Folk Songs)
American Ballads and Folk Songs (Dover Books On Music: Folk Songs) 4.26 avg rating — 86 ratings
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The Spook Ballads
The Spook Ballads really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Steel Drivin' Man: John Henry: the Untold Story of an American Legend
Steel Drivin' Man: John Henry: the Untold Story of an American Legend 3.76 avg rating — 368 ratings
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The Dolly Ballads - Illustrated by Frank Chesworth
The Dolly Ballads - Illustrated by Frank Chesworth it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Stagger Lee
Stagger Lee 3.67 avg rating — 189 ratings
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Otto Wood, the Bandit: The Freighthopping Thief, Bootlegger, and Convicted Murderer behind the Appalachian Ballads
Otto Wood, the Bandit: The Freighthopping Thief, Bootlegger, and Convicted Murderer behind the Appalachian Ballads 4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Murder Ballads
Murder Ballads 3.48 avg rating — 106 ratings
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Our Singing Country: Folk Songs and Ballads (Dover Books On Music: Folk Songs)
Our Singing Country: Folk Songs and Ballads (Dover Books On Music: Folk Songs) 4.27 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Our Singing Country: A Second Volume of American Ballads and Folk Songs
Our Singing Country: A Second Volume of American Ballads and Folk Songs 4.27 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Scalded to Death by the Steam: Authentic Stories of Railroad Disasters and the Ballads That Were Written About Them
Scalded to Death by the Steam: Authentic Stories of Railroad Disasters and the Ballads That Were Written About Them 3.89 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Very Best Irish Songs & Ballads, Volume 1
Very Best Irish Songs & Ballads, Volume 1 liked it 3.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Ballad Makin' in the Mountains of Kentucky
Ballad Makin' in the Mountains of Kentucky 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Danny Boy: The Legend Of The Beloved Irish Ballad
Danny Boy: The Legend Of The Beloved Irish Ballad 3.13 avg rating — 224 ratings
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Some Ballad Folks
Some Ballad Folks 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Ballad of the Green Beret: The Life and Wars of Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler from the Vietnam War and Pop Stardom to Murder and an Unsolved, Violent Death
Ballad of the Green Beret: The Life and Wars of Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler from the Vietnam War and Pop Stardom to Murder and an Unsolved, Violent Death 3.49 avg rating — 45 ratings
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English Folk Songs From The Southern Appalachians (1917)
English Folk Songs From The Southern Appalachians (1917) 4.75 avg rating — 8 ratings
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One Hundred English Folksongs
One Hundred English Folksongs 4.54 avg rating — 13 ratings
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A Good Tale and a Bonnie Tune (Texas Folklore Society Publications Series, 32)
A Good Tale and a Bonnie Tune (Texas Folklore Society Publications Series, 32) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Tam Lin
Tam Lin 3.61 avg rating — 187 ratings
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Tam Lin: An Old Ballad
Tam Lin: An Old Ballad 4.11 avg rating — 621 ratings