*" The Ballad of Casey Jones " is a traditional song about railroad engineer Casey Jones and his death at the controls of the train he was driving.

When the word ballad appears in the title of a song, as for example in The Beatles's " The Ballad of John and Yoko " or Billy Joel's " The Ballad of Billy the Kid ", the folk-music sense is generally implied.

" Ballad of the Green Berets " is a patriotic song in the ballad style about the Green Berets, an elite special force in the U. S. Army.

" Casey at the Bat: A Ballad of the Republic Sung in the Year 1888 " is a baseball poem written in 1888 by Ernest Thayer.

Thus C ' Mell (" The Ballad of Lost C ' Mell ") is cat-derived ; and D ' Joan (" The Dead Lady of Clown Town "), a Joan of Arc figure, is descended from dogs.

Thomas ' poetry is notable for its musicality, most clear in " Fern Hill ", " In Country Sleep ", " Ballad of the Long-legged Bait " and " In the White Giant's Thigh " from Under Milk Wood.

In addition, her 1985 album The Ballad of Sally Rose is an original concept album that includes many allusions to Parsons in its narrative.

There is also a Soviet movie The Ballad of the Valiant Knight Ivanhoe ( Баллада о доблестном рыцаре Айвенго, 1983 ), directed by Sergey Tarasov, with songs of Vladimir Vysotsky, starring Peteris Gaudins as Ivanhoe.

Largely ignored upon its initial release, The Ballad of Cable Hogue has been rediscovered in recent years and is often held up by critics as exemplary of the breadth of Peckinpah's talents.

In the 2006 movie Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby starring Will Ferrell and Sacha Baron Cohen, Cohen's character is reading a copy of L ' Etranger while he is driving his NASCAR race car.

Hua Mulan () is a legendary figure from ancient China who was originally described in a Chinese poem known as the Ballad of Mulan ( 木蘭辭 ).

The character is inspired by the legendary Hua Mulan from the Chinese poem The Ballad of Mulan.

The " Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp ( Let It Roll )" composed by the former Beatle George Harrison is dedicated to him.

* Francis James Child collected fourteen variants in The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, but the summary of Child Ballad 39A is considered to be the earliest ( Another Child ballad, Burd Ellen and Young Tamlane has no connection with this ballad except for the similarity of the heroes ' names.

The song is named " The Ballad of Blaze Tracy.

The ballad type is classified as D 280 in The Types of the Scandinavian Medieval Ballad ; the variant from Västmanland that Dybeck reproduced is classified as SMB 133 G. It was recorded by Rosa Wretman in the beginning of the 1840s.

The Ballad of Peckham Rye, a 1960 novel by Muriel Spark, is set in Peckham.

The movie's theme song, " The Ballad of Thunder Road ", was later recorded by Mitchum and became a popular single record, although Mitchum's rendition is not the one in the film itself.

The word TWAIN is from Rudyard Kipling's " The Ballad of East and West " — "... and never the twain shall meet ..." — reflecting the difficulty at the time of connecting scanners and personal computers.

According to the notes by Cecil Sharp on a variant of the Ballad of Little Sir Hugh, the story is as follows:

The single was taken from the album " Street Fighting Years " and the single version was also published with the title " Ballad Of The Streets ".

Titles like " Fedra West " ( also called Ballad of a Bounty Hunter ) and Johnny Hamlet signify the connection to the Greek myth and possibly the plays by Euripides and Racine and the play by William Shakespeare, respectively.

He drew on several of his earlier " Bab Ballad " poems ( many of which also have nautical themes ), including " Captain Reece " ( 1868 ) and " General John " ( 1867 ).

Hobbits are also featured in Leonard Nimoy's " Ballad of Bilbo Baggins ".

Two Rambling Syd Rumpo songs, " Green Grow My Nadgers Oh " and " The Ballad of the Woggler's Moulie ", were also included in the 1971 compilation album Oh!

When they inspect General Mapache's new automobile, they perceive it marks the end of horse travel, a symbol also in Peckinpah's Ride the High Country ( 1962 ) and The Ballad of Cable Hogue ( 1970 ).

Mitchum also co-wrote ( with Don Raye ) the theme song, " The Ballad of Thunder Road.

He also composed the music for the soundtrack to The Ballad of Little Jo ( 1993 ), a movie written and directed by Maggie Greenwald, whom he married in 1993.

He has also performed the songs " It's Alright, Ma ( I'm Only Bleeding )" and " Ballad of Easy Rider " which were included on the soundtrack of the film Easy Rider.

* Tom W. Blackburn-Western writer who also wrote the lyrics to " The Ballad of Davy Crockett "

He also co-wrote ( with Don Raye ) the theme song, " The Ballad of Thunder Road ".

In 2006, Isobel Campbell's collaboration with Mark Lanegan, Ballad of the Broken Seas, was included in the shortlist, despite Lanegan being American while Guillemots, whose album was also nominated in 2006, contained band members from Brazil and Canada.

* Her album Por Ti was nominated for " Latin Grammy " award in the category " Best Album-Female Pop Vocal "; it was also nominated for " Tu Música " award in the category Best Album-Pop / Ballad

They also appeared together in a 1930 ' film revue ' entitled Comets, featuring British stage, musical and variety acts, in which they sang in duet ' The Ballad of Frankie and Johnnie.

He also hosted a radio show, Your Ballad Man, in 1949 that was broadcast nationwide on the Mutual Radio Network and featured a highly eclectic program, from gamelan music, to Django Reinhardt, to Klezmer music, to Sidney Bechet and Wild Bill Davison, to jazzy pop songs by Maxine Sullivan and Jo Stafford, to readings of the poetry of Carl Sandburg, to hillbilly music with electric guitars, to Finnish brass bands – to name a few.

He also appeared as Konstantin Treplev in Sidney Lumet's 1968 adaptation of Anton Chekhov's The Sea Gull and starred alongside Jason Robards and Stella Stevens as Reverend Joshua Duncan Sloane in Sam Peckinpah's The Ballad of Cable Hogue.

Lanegan also received critical acclaim for his albums with Isobel Campbell, one of which, Ballad of the Broken Seas, was nominated for the 2006 Mercury Music Prize.

* Gibbs M. Smith wrote a biography " Joe Hill ", which was later turned into the 1971 movie Joe Hill also known as The Ballad of Joe Hill directed by Bo Widerberg.

The stereo mixes also include another unreleased song, with vocals by Emerson, titled " Unknown Ballad " for this release ; and an unreleased mix of " Mass " without vocals.

Although Wilde is best known for his plays, fiction, and The Ballad of Reading Gaol, he also wrote poetry in a symbolist vein and was the first Irish writer to experiment with prose poetry.

" The Ballad of Barbara Allen ", also known as " Barbara Ellen ," " Barbara Allan ," " Barb ' ry Allen ," " Barbriallen ," etc., is a folk song known in dozens of versions.

He is also ironically commemorated in the humorous song The Ballad of Harry Pollitt, which actually circulated most popularly in his lifetime.

It is also collected in the The Ballad of the Sad Cafe.