English and Scottish Ballads: Book IV. Tragic Ballads (pt. 11-32). Book V. Love Ballads not tragic (pt. 1-8) v. 4. Book V. Love Ballads not tragic (pt. 9-45)Francis James Child Little, Brown, 1857 - Ballads, English |
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... ship - board , the vessel , as if conscious of its guilty burden , becomes unmanageable , and will not sail till the ... ship's captain courted her to be his honey . There cam a ship's captain out owre the sea sailing Bonnie Annie Bonnie ...
... ship - board , the vessel , as if conscious of its guilty burden , becomes unmanageable , and will not sail till the ... ship's captain courted her to be his honey . There cam a ship's captain out owre the sea sailing Bonnie Annie Bonnie ...
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... ship , she winna sail for me , There's fey fowk in our ship , she winna sail for me . " They've casten black bullets twice six and forty , And ae the black bullet fell on bonnie Annie . " Ye'll tak me in your arms twa , lo , lift me ...
... ship , she winna sail for me , There's fey fowk in our ship , she winna sail for me . " They've casten black bullets twice six and forty , And ae the black bullet fell on bonnie Annie . " Ye'll tak me in your arms twa , lo , lift me ...
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... ship sailed , bonnie Annie she swam , And she was at Ireland as soon as them . 30 They made his love a coffin of the gowd sae yellow , And they buried her deep on the high banks of Yarrow . 32. The last two lines are derived from ...
... ship sailed , bonnie Annie she swam , And she was at Ireland as soon as them . 30 They made his love a coffin of the gowd sae yellow , And they buried her deep on the high banks of Yarrow . 32. The last two lines are derived from ...
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... said it had been I ; I put my foot on gude shipboard , The county to defy ; The ship she wadna sail again , But hoisted to and fro , And it's for mine offence I must die . 35 40 " Oup bespak the skipper - boy , I wat WILLIAM GUISEMAN . 51.
... said it had been I ; I put my foot on gude shipboard , The county to defy ; The ship she wadna sail again , But hoisted to and fro , And it's for mine offence I must die . 35 40 " Oup bespak the skipper - boy , I wat WILLIAM GUISEMAN . 51.
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... ship was rare , They landed in Bahome . But in that place they had not been A month but barely one , Till he look'd on his gay gold ring , And riven was the stone . Time after this was not expir'd A month but scarcely three , Till black ...
... ship was rare , They landed in Bahome . But in that place they had not been A month but barely one , Till he look'd on his gay gold ring , And riven was the stone . Time after this was not expir'd A month but scarcely three , Till black ...
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