Finishing 2025 with #ChildBallad number 5. https://youtu.be/u9ELP7dnShQ
Gil Brenton - Child Ballad #5

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Jack Orion is the third album by Scottish folk musician Bert Jansch, released in 1966. It contains a number of traditional songs, including the epic "Jack Orion": a ten-minute adaptation of the Child ballad "Glasgerion" which tells of a court fiddler’s attempt to seduce a countess and his servant's treachery in successfully impersonating him. A number of songs are performed with friend and fellow guitarist John Renbourn, who would later join him in the group Pentangle. "The Waggoner’s Lad" has Jansch unusually playing the banjo with Renbourn supplying the guitar part. - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uElI_9WRG0E

#bertjansch #britishfolk #scottishfolk #johnrenbourn #1966inmusic #jackorion #traditionalsongs #childballad

Some Martin Carthy on a Saturday evening. Most enjoyable. #folkMusc #traditionalMusic #song #ChildBallad

https://youtu.be/KGa-lfz5Vbw?si=mKoVYubkf_1mazl8

Martin Carthy - Lord Randall

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Dark animated music video: the Child Ballad Lucy Wan

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The king has been a prisoner
And a prisoner long in France
And Willie o' the Winsbury
Has gotten into his daughter's pants
#childballad #poetry #poem
As she went walking on the highway home, them sleighbells were a-jinglin'; and every bell, when it rang out, cried "Merry Christmas, #BarbaraAllen" #ChildBallad
@squeezyjohn Versions of the #JohnMastodon #ChildBallad text have been collected from as far afield as Southern Africa, making its purely English origins an area of lively discussion