Child Ballads

~ Work series

Works

#	Work	Authors	Recording artists	Other artists	ISWC	Type	Lyrics languages	Attributes	Rating
1	The Three Sisters (aka Riddles Wisely Expounded / The Devil's Nine Questions / Juniper, Gentle and Rosemary / Bow Down to the Bonny Broom)	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (writer)	Steeleye Span Sophie Crawford Burl Ives Bruce Molsky (show 10 more)			Song	English
2	The Elfin Knight (aka Scarborough Fair / Whittingham Fair / Rosemary Lane; title is easily confused with Child #4, check lyrics)	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (writer)	Ewan MacColl & Peggy Seeger Shirley Collins Kate Rusby Espers (show 9 more)			Song	Scots
3	The False Knight on the Road	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (writer)	Simon Nicol Tim Hart & Maddy Prior Gilmore & Roberts Artus Moser Charles Jordan & Joyce Sullivan			Song	English
4	The Outlandish Knight (title is easily confused with Child #2, check lyrics)	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (writer)	Nic Jones Martin Carthy Shirley & Dolly Collins Steeleye Span (show 20 more)			Song	English
5	Gil Brenton	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (writer)				Song	English
6	Willie's Lady	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (writer)	Martin Carthy Anaïs Mitchell & Jefferson Hamer Lady Maisery			Song	English
7	Earl Brand	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (writer)	Henry McGregor Ewan MacColl			Song	English
8	Erlinton	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (writer)				Song	English
9	The Fair Flower of Northumberland	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (writer)	Rachel Unthank & the Winterset Rosaleen Gregory			Song	English
10	The Two Sisters (aka The Wind and the Rain / The Bows of London / Cruel Sister)	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (composer, lyricist)	Clannad The Pentangle Tom Waits Bob Dylan (show 40 more)			Song	English
11	The Cruel Brother (aka The Three Knights / The Rose and the Lily)	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (composer, lyricist)	Battlefield Band Archie Fisher Eliza Carthy & Norma Waterson Sophie Crawford (show 2 more)			Song	English
12	Lord Randall (aka What Had You for Supper / Buried in Kilkenny / The Wild, Wild Berry)	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (composer, lyricist)	Martin Carthy The Dublin Ramblers Buffy Sainte‐Marie Steeleye Span (show 11 more)			Song	English
13	Edward (aka My Son David / Henry)	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (composer, lyricist)	Steeleye Span Nic Jones Alasdair Roberts Jeana Leslie & Siobhan Miller (show 6 more)			Song	English
14	The Bonnie Banks of Fordie (aka Babylon)	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (writer)	Old Blind Dogs M.J. Harris & Martyn Bates Nic Jones Malinky (show 2 more)			Song	English
15	Leesome Brand	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (writer)				Song	English
16	Sheath and Knife	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (writer)	Dead Raven Choir Corrina Hewat M.J. Harris & Martyn Bates Ewan MacColl (show 3 more)			Song	English
17	Hind Horn	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (writer)	Maddy Prior Ewan MacColl Brian Peters Chris Coe (show 2 more)			Song	English
18	Bold Sir Rylas (aka Sir Lionel / Rackabello)	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (writer)	Spiers & Boden Waterson:Carthy The Furrow Collective			Song	English
19	Orfeo (aka King Orfeo / Young Orphy)	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (composer, lyricist)	Anna & Elizabeth Coleman Grey Andrew Calhoun			Song	English
21	The Maid and the Palmer (aka The Well Below the Valley)	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (writer)	Steeleye Span Brass Monkey Jon Boden Green Ribbons (show 3 more)			Song	English
24	The Banks of Green Willow / The Green Banks of Yarrow / Bonnie Annie	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (composer, lyricist)	Shirley Collins Mrs. Maguire Ron Taylor and Jeff Gillett			Song	English
25	Willie's Lyke-Wake	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (composer, lyricist)	Ewan MacColl			Song	Scots
26	The Three Ravens (Child 26, Roud 5)	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (composer, lyricist)	Steeleye Span Frances Faye The Black Country Three Old Blind Dogs (show 14 more)			Song	English Scots
32	King Henry	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (writer)	Steeleye Span Martin Carthy Alfred Deller Pete Seeger (show 6 more)			Song	English
35	Alison Gross (Steeleye Span version)	Maddy Prior (arranger) Tim Hart (UK folk singer and multi-instrumentalist) (arranger) Bob Johnson (British guitarist and Steeleye Span member) (arranger) Peter Knight (Steeleye Span fiddler) (arranger) [traditional] (special purpose artist) (writer)	Steeleye Span			Song	English
37	Thomas the Rhymer	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (composer, lyricist)	Steeleye Span Ewan MacColl Clan Alba			Song	English
38	The Wee Wee Man (Steeleye Span version)	Maddy Prior (arranger) Tim Hart (UK folk singer and multi-instrumentalist) (arranger) Bob Johnson (British guitarist and Steeleye Span member) (arranger) Peter Knight (Steeleye Span fiddler) (arranger) [traditional] (special purpose artist) (writer)	Steeleye Span			Song	English
39	Tam Lin	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (writer)	Fairport Convention Anne Briggs Mike Waterson A. L. Lloyd (show 5 more)			Song	English
40	The Queen of Elfland's Nourice	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (lyricist)				Song	English
43	Broomfield Hill (aka The Broomfield Wager / A Wager, A Wager)	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (writer)	Tim Hart and Maddy Prior Martin Carthy Ewan MacColl Show of Hands (show 17 more)			Song	English
44	Two Magicians	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (composer, lyricist)	Steeleye Span The Owl Service A. L. Lloyd John Roberts & Tony Barrand with Fred Breunig & Steve Woodruff (show 6 more)			Song	English
46	Captain Wedderburn's Courtship	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (composer, lyricist)	Great Big Sea Ian & Sylvia Ewan MacColl Bellowhead (show 3 more)			Song	Scots
47	Proud Lady Margaret	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (composer, lyricist)	Ewan MacColl			Song	Scots
49	The Twa Brothers (The Two Brothers / Two Pretty Boys / The Rolling of the Stones)	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (composer, lyricist)	Silly Wizard Alasdair Roberts The Owl Service Peggy Seeger and Ewan Mac Coll Rattle On The Stovepipe			Song	English Scots
53	Young Beichan	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (composer, lyricist)	Sinéad O’Connor feat. Christy Moore Sandy Denny Jim Moray Ewan MacColl (show 6 more)			Song	English
54	The Cherry-Tree Carol	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (composer, lyricist)	José Feliciano Joan Baez The Pentangle Marlborough College Chapel Choir (show 25 more)			Song	English
55	King Herod and the Cock	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (composer, lyricist)	The Watersons [traditional] Mark Gilston Greanvine			Song	English
56	Dives and Lazarus	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (composer, lyricist)	Becky Taylor Rosaleen Gregory			Song	English
58	Sir Patrick Spens	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (composer)	Fairport Convention Martin Carthy Kris Drever Michiel Schrey, Seán Dagher, Richard Irwin & David Gossage (show 9 more)			Song	English
63	Child Waters (Fair Ellen / Lady Margaret)	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (composer, lyricist)	Ewan MacColl			Song	English
65	Lady Maisry	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (composer, lyricist)	Country Parish Music			Song	English
67	Glasgerion	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (lyricist)	Trees			Song	English
68	Young Hunting (aka Henry Lee / Love Henry / The Proud Girl / Earl Richard)	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (composer, lyricist)	Dick Justice ØXN John Roberts & Tony Barrand with Fred Breunig & Steve Woodruff Peggy Seeger (show 4 more)			Song	English
69	Clerk Saunders	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (composer, lyricist)	June Tabor			Song	Scots
73	Lord Thomas and Annet (aka Lord Thomas and Fair Ellender)	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (composer, lyricist)	Susan McKeown Jean Ritchie Jerry Garcia & David Grisman Ewan MacColl (show 2 more)			Song	English
74	Fair Margaret and Sweet William	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (composer, lyricist)	Pete Seeger Trees Shirley Collins Rhiannon Giddens with Francesco Turrisi (show 18 more)			Song	English
75	Lord Lovell	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (composer)	Jean Ritchie [unknown] Hennessys Country Parish Music			Song	English
76	The Lass of Roch Royal	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (composer, lyricist)	Judy Collins Ewan MacColl Jean Ritchie Lisa O’Neill (show 2 more)			Song
77	Sweet William’s Ghost (aka Lady Margaret)	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (writer)	Cassie Franklin Kate Rusby Paddy Tunney Maggie Boyle (show 6 more)			Song	English
78	The Unquiet Grave	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (composer, lyricist)	Joan Baez Gryphon Lau Steven Wilson (show 40 more)			Song	English
79	The Wife of Usher’s Well (no specific arrangement)	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (composer, lyricist)	Steeleye Span Martin Carthy Hedy West Hesperus (show 3 more)			Song	English
81	Matty Groves	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (composer, lyricist)	Fairport Convention Doc Watson Moriarty Robyn Hitchcock (show 12 more)			Song	English
84	Barbara Allen	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (composer, lyricist)	The Everly Brothers Bob Dylan Joan Baez Shirley Collins (show 53 more)			Song	English
93	Lamkin (traditional ballad)	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (composer, lyricist)	Shirley Collins Mrs. Nicola "Aunt Nicky" Pritchard (Turbyfill)			Song	English
94	Young Waters	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (composer, lyricist)	JSD Band			Song	English
95	The Maid Freed From the Gallows (traditional song - not the Led Zep arrangement)	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (composer, lyricist)	Neil Young with Crazy Horse Spiers & Boden Richard Lewis, Charles Mackerras, Robert Masters Chamber Orchestra Judy Collins (show 6 more)			Song	English
100	Willie of Winsbury	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (composer, lyricist)	Anne Briggs The Pentangle Offa Rex The Owl Service (show 13 more)			Song	English
102	Willie and Earl Richard's Daughter / The Birth of Robin Hood (Also known as Willie and Earl Richard's Daughter)	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (writer)	The Owl Service			Song	English
104	Prince Heathen	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (writer)	Martin Carthy & Dave Swarbrick Martin Carthy The Furrow Collective			Song
105	The Bailiff’s Daughter of Islington	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (composer, lyricist)	Albert Beale Owen Brannigan, Elizabeth Harwood, Hendon Grammar School Choir, Pro Arte Orchestra, Charles Mackerras Laura Cortese Danny Carnahan Danny Carnahan & Robin Petrie			Song	English
106	The Famous Flower of Serving Men (aka The Border Widow's Lament)	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (composer, lyricist)	Martin Carthy Ewan MacColl Steeleye Span June Tabor (show 2 more)			Song	English
110	The Knight and the Shepherd's Daughter (Roud 67; Child 110)	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (writer)	Steeleye Span John Strachan The Young Tradition			Song	English
111	Crow and Pie	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (writer)	TatterSmith			Song	English
112	The Baffled Knight	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (composer, lyricist) [anonymous] (special purpose artist) (composer)	Emily Bishop The Academy Of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood, Sneak's Noyse, Roderick Skeaping Rosaleen Gregory			Song	English
113	The Great Silkie of Sule Skerry (trad tune: if you don't know which tune, it's probably the Waters tune, not this one)	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (composer, lyricist)	John Sinclair June Tabor Landless Paul Clayton (show 2 more)			Song
114	Johnie Cock	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (composer, lyricist)	Ewan MacColl			Song	Scots
125	Robin Hood and Little John	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (composer, lyricist)	John Strachan			Song	English
132	Robin Hood and the Pedlar	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (composer, lyricist)	Steeleye Span			Song	English
155	Sir Hugh	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (writer)	Steeleye Span Nelstone’s Hawaiians Alasdair Roberts Cecilia Costello Ollie Gilbert			Song	English
156	Queen Eleanor's Confession	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (writer)	Tim Hart and Maddy Prior The Furrow Collective Fay Hield Rosaleen Gregory			Song	English
163	The Battle of Harlaw	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (composer, lyricist)	Jeannie Robertson & Lucy Stewart Ewan MacColl Andrew Calhoun Jim Reid Simon Chadwick			Song	Scots
168	Flodden Field	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (writer)	The Owl Service			Song	English
173	Mary Hamilton (child ballad 173)	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (writer)	Joan Baez Rebecca Pidgeon Jeannie Robertson Sara Banleigh (show 2 more)			Song	English
181	The Bonny Earl O' Moray	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (composer, lyricist)	Ewan MacColl			Song	English
183	Burning of Auchindoun	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (composer, lyricist)	Rosa Zajac & Daragh Lynch Ewan MacColl Alasdair Roberts			Song
191	Hughie Graeme	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (composer, lyricist)	Ewan MacColl			Song	Scots
195	Lord Maxwell's Last Goodnight	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (composer, lyricist)	June Tabor			Song	English
199	Bonny House o' Airlie	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (composer, lyricist)	Belle Stewart Steve Crawford & Sabrina Palm Ewan MacColl			Song
200	The Raggle Taggle Gypsy (aka The Raggle Taggle Gypsies O / The Gypsy Laddie / Black Jack Davy / Seven Yellow Gypsies)	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (composer, lyricist)	The Waterboys Steeleye Span Fotheringay Planxty (show 102 more)			Song	English
201	Betsy Bell and Mary Gray	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (composer, lyricist)	Steeleye Span Ewan MacColl The Fagans			Song	Scots
204	The Water Is Wide (18th Century shanty)	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (composer, lyricist)	Sarah McLachlan, Indigo Girls & Jewel Barbra Streisand Hayley Westenra Eriksen (show 57 more)			Song	English
209	Geordie (aka Georgie)	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (composer, lyricist)	Joan Baez Trees Martin Carthy Sandy Denny (show 18 more)			Song	English
213	Sir James the Rose	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (writer)				Song	English
214	The Dowie Dens o Yarrow	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (composer, lyricist)	Joni Mitchell Karine Polwart Dick Gaughan Davie Stewart (show 4 more)			Song
216	Clyde's Water (aka The Mother's Malison / The Drowned Lovers)	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (writer)	Kate Rusby Nic Jones John Strachan Jon Boden (show 5 more)			Song	English
217	The Broom o’ the Cowdenknowes (aka Bonny May)	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (composer, lyricist)	June Tabor Silly Wizard Offa Rex Ewan MacColl (show 12 more)			Song	Scots
219	The Gardener (aka Proud Maisrie / The Gardener Child)	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (composer, lyricist)	Bert Jansch Offa Rex Ewan MacColl & Peggy Seeger Steeleye Span (show 9 more)			Song	English
221	Katherine Jafray	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (composer, lyricist)	Cecilia Costello & Thomas Moran			Song	English
223	Eppie Morrie	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (composer, lyricist)	Fotheringay Sìleas Jimmy MacBeath Andrew Calhoun (show 4 more)			Song
226	Lizie Lindsay	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (composer, lyricist)	The Campbells Kim Hughes Rosaleen Gregory			Song	Scots
228	Glasgow Peggy	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (composer, lyricist)	Ewan MacColl & Peggy Seeger Silly Wizard Ewan MacColl			Song	Scots
231	The Earl of Errol	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (writer)	Battlefield Band Kim Hughes			Song	English
232	Richie Story	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (writer)	Shirley Collins Trembling Bells Jackie Oates Peggy Seeger and Ewan Mac Coll			Song	English
235	The Earl of Aboyne	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (composer, lyricist)	June Tabor			Song	Scots
236	Laird o' Drum	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (composer, lyricist)	Lucy Stewart			Song	Scots
238	Glenlogie	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (composer, lyricist)	Shirley & Dolly Collins John Strachan Ewan MacColl Dick Gaughan (show 2 more)			Song	Scots
239	Annachie Gordon	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (composer)	Loreena McKennitt The Unthanks			Song	English
240	The Rantin Laddie	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (composer, lyricist)	Willie Mathieson Ewan MacColl			Song	Scots
243	The Daemon Lover (aka The House Carpenter)	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (composer, lyricist)	The Pentangle Clarence Ashley Jacqui McShee’s Pentangle Myrkur (show 19 more)			Song	English
248	The Grey Cock	[traditional] (special purpose artist) (composer, lyricist)	Tim Hart and Maddy Prior Barbara Dickson Steeleye Span Cecilia Costello (show 4 more)			Song	English

Relationships

subseries of:	Folk Song Collections

other databases:	https://mainlynorfolk.info/folk/songs/childindex.html [info]
Wikidata:	Q2517093 [info]