* Sir Hugh ballad, also known as " The Jew's Garden ", and " The Fatal Flower Garden "

These motifs are shared by both Sir Orfeo and later-collected versions of the ballad fairy-lore in such works as the ballads of Thomas the Rhymer and Tam Lin.

A free English translation in verse of the ballad was written by Harrison Ainsworth, who changed the name of the English leader to " Sir Robert Pembroke ".

Sir Philip Sidney said of this early ballad:

Though Falstaff is more likely modeled on his father William Brooke, 10th Baron Cobham ( also descended from John Oldcastle ) who was married to Francis Newton, whose family name was originally Caradock ; referenced in 2 Henry IV when Falstaff sings " The Boy and the Mantle ," a ballad in which Sir Caradoc's wife comes away with her fidelity and reputation intact ( McKeen 1981 ).

This could point to William Brooke, being married to a Caradock such as the Sir Cacadoc in the ballad sung by Falstaff, as the model for Falstaff rather than Henry, being the son of a Caradock.

He is the subject of an English folk song entitled Sir Andrew Barton or Andrew Bartin, which is Child ballad number 167.

Some indicate that a storm sank the ship in the initial crossing, thus ending the ballad at this point, while many have Sir Patrick safely reaching Norway.

Sir Lionel is the subject of the late-medieval folk ballad " Sir Lionel ", recorded as Child Ballad 18, in which he slays a giant wild boar.

* One version of the folk ballad Sir Lionel

These colourful adventures are traceable to a popular ballad entitled Sir William Stanley's Garland, which exaggerates his three years away to " twenty one years travels through most parts of the world ".

Sir Aldingar is Child ballad 59.

The fortress of Campo Maior, 15 km to the northeast, is famous for its siege by the French and relief by the British under Marshal Beresford in 1811, an exploit commemorated in a ballad by Sir Walter Scott.

The Private of the Buffs ( or The British Soldier In China ) is a ballad by Sir Francis Hastings Doyle describing the execution of a British infantryman by Chinese soldiers in 1860.

Attributed to Robert Sempill, the ballad describes Fleming's failed ambush of Sir William Drury.

It is significant in that it was the first to include Baez ' own compositions, " Sweet Sir Galahad " and " A Song for David ", the former song a ballad for her younger sister Mimi Fariña, and the latter song being for her then husband, David Harris, at the time in prison as a conscientious objector.

Christian is chiefly celebrated through the Manx ballad, which has been translated into English by John Crellin in 1774 ( and separately by George Borrow ), and through the references to him in Sir Walter Scott's Peveril of the Peak.

The beautiful ballad of Sir Patrick Spens ( F. J.

Buccleuch's kinsman, the author Sir Walter Scott, transcribed a well known ballad about the raid entitled Kinmont Willie in his collection Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Vol.

Sir Henry Newbolt wrote a ballad titled The Fighting Temeraire, referencing the scenario depicted: " And she's fading down the river, But in England's song for ever, She's the Fighting Téméraire.

Patrick Galvin ( born 1927 ) worked mainly with the ballad tradition and his poetry displays his left-wing politics.

A number of its lines and the general plot resemble those of a contemporary broadside ballad " Patrick Fleming " ( also called " Patrick Flemmen he was a Valiant Soldier ") about an Irish highwayman executed in 1650.

A " traditionary ballad " entitled Mannanan beg mac y Leirr ; ny, slane coontey jeh Ellan Vannin (" Little Mannanan son of Leirr ; or, an ( whole ) account of the Isle of Man ")( dated to 1507-22 ), states that the Isle of Man was once under the rule of Mannan, who used to impose a token tax from the island folk, until St. Patrick came and banished the heathen.

" She's Like the Wind " is a power ballad performed by Patrick Swayze.

His exploits are commemorated in the famous Irish ballad Kelly the Boy From Killane written by Patrick Joseph McCall ( 1861 – 1919 ).

Mr. Herman has managed to mix musical ideas drawn from Israel and the standard American ballad style in a manner that stresses the basic tunefulness of both idioms.

The traditional, classical or popular ( meaning of the people ) ballad has been seen as originating with the wandering minstrels of late medieval Europe.

The subject matter varied from what has been defined as the traditional ballad, although many traditional ballads were printed as broadsides.

The term ballad opera has also been used to describe musicals using folk music, such as The Martins and the Coys in 1944, and Peter Bellamy's The Transports in 1977.

The blues ballad has been seen as a fusion of Anglo-American and Afro-American styles of music from the 19th century.

The most famous bush ballad is " Waltzing Matilda ", which has been called " the unofficial national anthem of Australia ".

Almost no written Norn has survived, but what little remains includes a version of the Lord's Prayer and a ballad.

Early pop music drew on the sentimental ballad for its form, gained its use of vocal harmonies from gospel and soul music, instrumentation from jazz, country, and rock music, orchestration from classical music, tempo from dance music, backing from electronic music, rhythmic elements from hip-hop music, and has recently appropriated spoken passages from rap.

While the Sheriff of Nottingham and the town itself appear in early ballads, and Sherwood is specifically mentioned in the early ballad Robin Hood and the Monk, certain of the original ballads ( even those with Nottingham references ) locate Robin on occasion in Barnsdale ( the area between Pontefract and Doncaster ), approximately fifty miles north of Nottingham, in the county of Yorkshire ; furthermore, it has been suggested that the ballads placed in this area are far more geographically specific and accurate.

The album spawned five hit singles: " It's Been Awhile " ( which hit the Billboard Top 10 ), " Fade " ( which has been featured on a number of movie soundtracks and television shows ), " Outside ", " For You ", and the acoustic ballad " Epiphany ".

It has been hailed as an important example of the " jazz ballad style "—" a slow or medium-tempo piece played gently and sweetly, but not cloyingly, with no loss of muscle.

The ballad, like almost all of the poems in the Alice books, has no young protagonists, is rather dark, and does not end happily.

Contemporary Scottish poet Marie Marshall has written a semi-serious ballad in parody of 19c neo-medievalism " How Finn McCool became Lord of Tara ".

An early 17th century broadside ballad, " The Mad Merry Pranks of Robin Goodfellow "— which is so deft and literate it has been taken for the work of Ben Jonson — describes Puck / Robin Goodfellow as the emissary of Oberon, the Faery King, inspiring night-terrors in old women but also carding their wool while they sleep, leading travellers astray, taking the shape of animals, blowing out the candles to kiss the girls in the darkness, twitching off their bedclothes, or making them fall out of bed on the cold floor, tattling secrets, and changing babes in cradles with elflings.

* 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 romantic ballad from this album, " Someone Like You ", has been featured subsequently in the soundtracks of several movies, including 1995's French Kiss, and in 2001, both Someone Like You and Bridget Jones's Diary.

Manannán has strong ties to the Isle of Man, where he is referenced in a traditional ballad as having been the nation's first ruler.

He has been claimed as a Scots bard on the strength of one ballad, " O gallandis all, I cry and call ," which is printed in Allan Ramsay's Evergreen ( 2 vols.

While the song has been traditionally performed as a ballad, vocalist Kalil Wilson recorded an uptempo version of the song for his 2009 album, " Easy to Love.

They were first transcribed in the previous century, but the ballad tradition has been handed down from the Middle Ages.

The lyrics of " Scarborough Fair " appear to have something in common with an obscure Scottish ballad, The Elfin Knight ( Child Ballad # 2 ), which has been traced at least as far back as 1670 and may well be earlier.

The references to the traditional English fair, " Scarborough Fair " and the refrain " parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme " date to 19th century versions, and the refrain may have been borrowed from the ballad Riddles Wisely Expounded, ( Child Ballad # 1 ), which has a similar plot.

Chimney sweeping was also one of the more commonly difficult, hazardous, and low-paying occupations of the era, and consequently has been derided in verse, ballad and pantomime.