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The Jolly Beggar (Roud 118, Child 279), also known as The Gaberlunzieman, The Ragged Beggarman or simply The Beggar Man, is a traditional Scottish folk ballad. The song's chorus inspired lines in Lord Byron 's poem " So, we'll go no more a roving ".
"A Bushman's Song" (1892) is a poem by Australian poet A. B. Paterson. [1]It was originally published in The Bulletin on 24 December 1892, with the title "Travelling Down the Castlereagh", and subsequently reprinted in a collection of the author's poems, other newspapers and periodicals and a number of Australian poetry anthologies.
The ballad is an adaptation of a sea song called "The Sailor's Grave" or "The Ocean Burial", which began "O bury me not in the deep, deep sea." [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] The Ocean Burial was written by Edwin Hubbell Chapin , published in 1839, and put to music by George N. Allen.
"The Night Owls" is a song by Australian rock band Little River Band. It was released in September 1981 as the lead single from their sixth studio album Time Exposure.It is the first song to feature new bassist Wayne Nelson on vocals.
Poems and Ballads, First Series is the first collection of poems by Algernon Charles Swinburne, published in 1866. The book was instantly popular, and equally controversial. Swinburne wrote about many taboo topics, such as lesbianism, sado-masochism, and anti-theism. The poems have many common elements, such as the Ocean, Time, and Death.
The Unfortunate Rake" is a ballad (Roud 2, Laws Q26), [1] which through the folk process has evolved into a large number of variants, including allegedly the country and western song "Streets of Laredo".
The earliest known text is a Broadside ballad titled "The nightingale's song: or The soldier's rare musick, and maid's recreation" published between 1689 and 1709 by W Onley of London, in the Bodleian Ballad Collection. [9] This text has a pious moral at the end which both later publishers and traditional singers dispensed with. [10] [11]
"I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine" is a pensive ballad. [5] Like the rest of the John Wesley Harding album, the music of "I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine" uses spare, unobtrusive musical accompaniment. [5] The primary instruments are an acoustic guitar and drums. [5] The lyrics describe a dream that is enigmatic and subject to interpretation. [5]