ballads, english

Twenty-three fiction and nonfiction writers, songwriters, and cartoonists, such as Joyce Carol Oates, Luc Sante, Paul Muldoon, and R. Crumb, present their own versions of American ballads from throughout the art form's history, including "Barbara Allen," "John Brown's Body," "Dead Man's Curve," and "Nebraska.".

The legend of Robin Hood began more than 600 years ago. The man, if he existed at all, lived even earlier. In this definitive work, Professor Sir James Holt, one of Britain's premier historians and author of the standard work on the Magna Carta, unravels pure invention from real possibility and offers the results of some thirty years of research.

Contains 290 songs, ballads, and ditties with words and music, complete harmonizations or piano accompaniments.

A collection of African-American ballads. The stories told in these folk tunes cover a wide range of subjects, from the assassination of a president, to the marriage of a young couple, the the mischief of the boll weevil.

An illustrated version of the English ballad relating the murder and funeral of Cock Robin.

The medieval English ballad of John Barleycorn, who after being ploughed under the ground grows up again in the spring to be harvested and ultimately turned into homebrewed ale.