"Scarborough Fair" (#Roud 12, #Child 2) is a traditional Northern English #ballad. The song lists a number of #impossibleTasks given to a former lover who lives in #ScarboroughNorthYorkshire. The "Scarborough/Whittingham Fair" variant was most common in Yorkshire and #Northumbria, where it was sung to various melodies, often using #DorianMode, with refrains resembling "#parsley, #sage, #rosemary and #thyme".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yY-TNeJ_gJM

"Tom Dooley" (#Roud 4192) is a traditional North Carolina #folkSong based on the 1866 murder of a woman named Laura Foster in #WilkesCountyNorthCarolina by #TomDula (whose name in the local dialect was pronounced "Dooley"). One of the more famous #murderBallads, a popular hit version recorded in 1958 by #TheKingstonTrio reached No. 1 on the #Billboard #Hot100 singles chart, was in the top 10 on the Billboard R&B chart, and appeared in the #Cashbox Country Music Top 20.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3zdE8bliGI

"Midnight Special" (#Roud 6364) is a traditional #folk song thought to have originated among prisoners in the American South. The song refers to the passenger train #MidnightSpecial and its "ever-loving light." The song is historically performed in the country-blues style from the viewpoint of the prisoner and has been performed by many artists.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNiUfwHJF6E

"Roll, Jordan, Roll" (#Roud 6697), also "Roll, Jordan", is a #spiritual created by enslaved African Americans, developed from a song written by #IsaacWatts in the 18th century which became well known among #slaves in the United States during the 19th century. Appropriated as a coded message for escape, by the end of the #AmericanCivilWar it had become known through much of the eastern United States. In the 19th century, it #helped inspire #blues.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rM15iIE_S_Y

"Midnight Special" (#Roud 6364) is a traditional #folk song thought to have originated among prisoners in the American South. The song refers to the passenger train #MidnightSpecial and its "ever-loving light." The song is historically performed in the country-blues style from the viewpoint of the prisoner and has been performed by many artists.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNiUfwHJF6E

"I'll Fly Away"(#Roud 18437) is a hymn written in 1929 by #AlbertEBrumley and published in 1932 by the Hartford Music company in a collection titled Wonderful Message. Brumley's writing was influenced by the 1924 secular #ballad "#ThePrisonersSong". "#IllFlyAway" has been called the most recorded #gospel song. It is frequently used in worship services by #Baptists, #Pentecostals, #Nazarenes, the #ChurchesOfChrist and many Presbyterians and #Methodists.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJWgpljckbA

"I'll Fly Away"(#Roud 18437) is a hymn written in 1929 by #AlbertEBrumley and published in 1932 by the Hartford Music company in a collection titled Wonderful Message. Brumley's writing was influenced by the 1924 secular #ballad "#ThePrisonersSong". "#IllFlyAway" has been called the most recorded #gospel song. It is frequently used in worship services by #Baptists, #Pentecostals, #Nazarenes, the #ChurchesOfChrist and many Presbyterians and #Methodists.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_GRfzKPie8

"Midnight Special" (#Roud 6364) is a traditional #folk song thought to have originated among prisoners in the American South. The song refers to the passenger train #MidnightSpecial and its "ever-loving light." The song is historically performed in the country-blues style from the viewpoint of the prisoner and has been performed by many artists.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BX619zMmnqQ

"#MaggieMay" (or "Maggie Mae") (#Roud No. 1757) is a traditional #Liverpool folk song about a prostitute who robbed a "homeward bounder": a sailor coming home from a round trip. #JohnManifold, in his Penguin Australian Song Book, described it as "A #focsle song of Liverpool origin apparently, but immensely popular among seamen all over the world". It became widely circulated in a #skiffle version from the late 1950s. In 1964, the composer.
https://youtu.be/tSn1r9--tq4