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Golden Vanity
One variant of "The Sweet Trinity", American traditional, closest to Child's version C.
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"The Sweet Trinity", also known as "The Golden Vanity" or "The Golden Willow Tree", is an English folk song or sea shanty, listed as Child Ballad 286. The first surviving version, about 1635, was "Sir Walter Raleigh Sailing In The Lowlands (Shewing how the famous Ship called the Sweet Trinity was taken by a false Gally & how it was again restored by the craft of a little Sea-boy, who sunk the Gally)".
variant of "TheSweetTrinity", American traditional, closest to Child's version C. Problems playing this file? See media help. "TheSweetTrinity", also known...
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album Sea Fever, as well as a song derived from another Child Ballad, TheSweetTrinity; June Tabor in her 2003 album An Echo of Hooves; Jim Malcolm Live...
fragment of which is preserved in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge. Robin Hood and Little John walk through the forest. Robin speaks of a bad dream...
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of the 19th century. Their lyrics and Child's studies of them were published as The English and Scottish Popular Ballads. The tunes of most of the ballads...
or abstractions ("isle of sweet liberty", "banks of sweet relief"). The ballad was collected and recorded many times in the Appalachian Mountains; Clarence...
originating from the Scottish Borders. It is also associated with a reel of the same name, also known as the Glasgow Reel. The story revolves around the rescue...
usually titled "L'avvelenato [it]" ("The Poisoned Man") or "Il testamento dell'avvelenato" ("The Poisoned Man's Will"), the earliest known version being a 1629...
‘His hound is to the hunting gane, His hawk to fetch the wild-fowl hame, His lady's taen another mate, So we may mak our dinner sweet. ‘Ye'll sit on his...
(Roud 6, Child 93) is an English-language ballad. It gives an account of the murder of a woman and her infant son by a man, in some versions, a disgruntled...
which the lady must perform in order to be accepted as his lover. The first verse usually opens with the introduction of the title character: The elphin...
"The False Lover Won Back" is a Scottish ballad, cataloged as Child Ballad 218 (Roud 201). Francis James Child cataloged the song as Child Ballad 218...
"Mary Hamilton", or "The Fower Maries" ("The Four Marys"), is a common name for a well-known sixteenth-century ballad from Scotland based on an apparently...
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freedom from the executioner. Other variants and/or titles include "The Gallows Pole", "The Gallis Pole", "Hangman", "The Prickle-Holly Bush", "The Golden Ball"...
ballads: Bonny Bee Hom, Sweet William's Ghost and some variants of The Twa Brothers. The motif that excessive grief can disturb the dead is found also in...
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