Ancient Songs and Ballads of Lancashire
John Harland
46 chapters · 5 h 39 min · English
Read by Phil Benson
Ballads
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Traditional songs and ballads from Lancashire in the north-west of England from the opening section of John Harland's collection, Ballads and Songs of Lancashire, Ancient and Modern. The ballads and songs in this section are from the eighteenth century and earlier, and mostly by unknown authors. - Summary by Philip Benson
Chapters
1 Introduction, by T. T. Wilkinson 15 min 2 Fragment of an Ancient Ballad of a Tyrannical Husband; The Old Man and his Wife 14 min 3 A Trafford and Byron Feud; The Bewsey Tragedy and its Legend 15 min 4 The Lancashire Heroes; Flodden Field 20 min 5 A Love Song; A Balade of Maryage 5 min 6 The Blessed Conscience 16 min 7 The Radcliffe Tragedy of Fair Ellen 11 min 8 James I. and the Loin of Beef 2 min 9 Warrikin Fair 6 min 10 Brigadier Macintosh's Escape and Farewell 12 min 11 Long Preston Peggy; Jemmy Dawson 16 min 12 The Preston Prisoners to the Ladies about Court and Town 4 min 13 Townley's Ghost 6 min 14 The Three Sisters and The Miller and the King's Daughter 10 min 15 Lancashire May Songs 19 min 16 Wassail Song 2 min 17 The Liverpool Tragedy 16 min 18 Stoneyhurst Buck Hunt 10 min 19 The Unfortunate Love of a Lancashire Gentleman 11 min 20 Careless Content by John Byrom 6 min 21 The Frog and the Crow 3 min 22 Dick o' Stanley Green 4 min 23 Blakeley Courtship 5 min 24 The Lancashire Miller 2 min 25 Contentment by John Byrom 4 min 26 Sir Gualter 4 min 27 The Hermit of Kersall Cell by John Leigh 6 min 28 Warrington Ale 2 min 29 Droylsden Wakes Song 6 min 30 Radcliffe Otter Hunt 7 min 31 The Owdham Recruit 4 min 32 The Cocky Moor Snake 7 min 33 Jone o' Grinfilt's Ramble [John of Greenfield's Ramble] 23 min 34 The Burnley Haymakers 6 min 35 The Praise of Lancashire Men 4 min 36 Will, the Ferryman 4 min 37 The Lovers' Leap 2 min 38 Death of an Old Huntsman 3 min 39 Handloom Versus Powerloom 3 min 40 Gorton Town 5 min 41 The Hand-Loom Weavers' Lament 3 min 42 The Middleton Overseer and the Madman 5 min 43 Mary Melvin of the Mersey Side 3 min 44 Grimshaw's Factory Fire 4 min 45 The Bonny Gray 2 min 46 The Lancashire Witches 2 min
