Examples of bawdy folk songs are: " Seventeen Come Sunday " and " The Ballad of Eskimo Nell ".

It has been classified as Child Ballad 84 and Roud 54.

It is related to Child Ballad 204 ( Roud number 87 ), Jamie Douglas, which in turn refers to the ostensibly unhappy first marriage of James Douglas, 2nd Marquess of Douglas to Lady Barbara Erskine.

#" Two Magicians " ( Traditional ) ( Roud Folk Song Index # 1350, Child Ballad # 44 )

*" 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 is also sometimes applied to strophic story-songs more generally, such as Don McLean's " American Pie ".

" 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:

On Capp's exit, Lennon sang an impromptu version of his Ballad of John and Yoko song with a slightly revised, but nonetheless prophetic lyric: " Christ, you know it ain't easy / You know how hard it can be / The way things are goin ' / They're gonna crucify Capp!

The show's theme song, " The Ballad of Jed Clampett ", was written by producer and writer Paul Henning and originally performed by bluegrass artists Flatt and Scruggs.

The song was a send-up of " The Ballad of the Green Berets ", chronicling the adventures of a draft dodger.

* Comedian Paul Shanklin parodied the song with " Ballad of the Black Beret ", referring to the Clinton sex scandal, on his 1999 album Simply Reprehensible.

Its opening and closing lament, " The Ballad of Mackie Messer ", was written just before the Berlin premiere, when actor Harald Paulsen ( Macheath ) threatened to quit if his character did not receive an introduction ; this creative emergency resulted in what would become the work's most popular song, later translated into English by Marc Blitzstein as " Mack the Knife " and now a jazz standard that Louis Armstrong, Bobby Darin, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Michael Bublé, Robbie Williams, Ray Quinn and countless others have all covered.

Though trouble in Southeast Asia was shown in Jack L. Warner's Brushfire ( 1961 ), and Marshall Thompson's A Yank in Viet-Nam ( 1964 ) and To the Shores of Hell ( 1966 ), the major Hollywood studios refused to make any Vietnam War films with the exception of John Wayne's The Green Berets based on the best-selling book by Robin Moore and using the theme song " Ballad of the Green Berets ".

Lennon detailed this period in The Beatles ' song " The Ballad of John and Yoko ".

Composition of the music had begun during May-July of the previous year, 1840, when Wagner wrote Senta's Ballad, the Norwegian Sailors ' song in Act 3 (" Steersman, leave the Watch!

Space and Cerys Matthews released " The Ballad of Tom Jones ", a song about a fighting couple who are calmed down by listening to Jones ' music on the radio.

The song " I know a youth who loves a little maid ," can be traced back to the Bab Ballad, " The Modest Couple ", in which the very shy and proper Peter and Sarah are betrothed but are reluctant to shake hands or sit side by side.

The latter song was a secondary theme song for the Soviet Union's second color film, Ballad of Siberia ( in ).

The Allied soldiers in Italy were so incensed that Major Hamish Henderson of the 51st Highland Division composed a bitingly sarcastic song to the tune of the haunting German song " Lili Marleen " ( popularised in English by Marlene Dietrich ) called " The Ballad Of The D-Day Dodgers ".

For example, consider the references to the use of a Dobro guitar on songs like " The Ballad of Curtis Loew " by Lynyrd Skynyrd, " Valium Waltz " by the Old 97's, " When Papa Played the Dobro " by Johnny Cash on the Ride This Train album, or " Gold Dust Woman ", a song by Fleetwood Mac from the album Rumours which features a a Dobro.

Also, instead of writing an entirely new song for the film, Dylan simply wrote out the first verse of “ Ballad of Easy Rider ” and told the filmmakers, “ Give this to McGuinn, he ’ ll know what to do with it .” McGuinn completed the song and performed it in the film.

These rumours quickly spread across Dublin, gathering momentum until they are turned into a song penned by the character Hosty called " The Ballad of Persse O ' Reilly ".

In most stagings of the musical Cats, which include the song " Growltiger's Last Stand " — a recollection of an old play by Gus the Theatre Cat — the character of Lady Griddlebone sings " The Ballad of Billy McCaw ".

The song " Ballad of Cleo and Joe " addressed the complications of a drag queen's double life.