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Traditional songs and ballads from Lancashire in the north-west of England from the opening section of John Harland's collection, Ballads and Songs of Lancashire, Ancient and Modern. The ballads and songs in this section are from the eighteenth century and earlier, and mostly by unknown authors. - Summary by Philip Benson
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Chapters
- Chapter 1
Introduction, by T. T. Wilkinson
14:58 - Chapter 2
Fragment of an Ancient Ballad of a Tyrannical Husband; The Old Man and his Wife
13:59 - Chapter 3
A Trafford and Byron Feud; The Bewsey Tragedy and its Legend
15:18 - Chapter 4
The Lancashire Heroes; Flodden Field
19:38 - Chapter 5
A Love Song; A Balade of Maryage
04:51 - Chapter 6
The Blessed Conscience
16:08 - Chapter 7
The Radcliffe Tragedy of Fair Ellen
11:01 - Chapter 8
James I. and the Loin of Beef
01:55 - Chapter 9
Warrikin Fair
06:10 - Chapter 10
Brigadier Macintosh's Escape and Farewell
12:21 - Chapter 11
Long Preston Peggy; Jemmy Dawson
15:58 - Chapter 12
The Preston Prisoners to the Ladies about Court and Town
03:48 - Chapter 13
Townley's Ghost
06:26 - Chapter 14
The Three Sisters and The Miller and the King's Daughter
09:53 - Chapter 15
Lancashire May Songs
18:35 - Chapter 16
Wassail Song
02:16 - Chapter 17
The Liverpool Tragedy
16:08 - Chapter 18
Stoneyhurst Buck Hunt
10:18 - Chapter 19
The Unfortunate Love of a Lancashire Gentleman
11:25 - Chapter 20
Careless Content by John Byrom
05:35 - Chapter 21
The Frog and the Crow
02:53 - Chapter 22
Dick o' Stanley Green
03:45 - Chapter 23
Blakeley Courtship
04:38 - Chapter 24
The Lancashire Miller
02:04 - Chapter 25
Contentment by John Byrom
03:44 - Chapter 26
Sir Gualter
03:59 - Chapter 27
The Hermit of Kersall Cell by John Leigh
05:59 - Chapter 28
Warrington Ale
02:09 - Chapter 29
Droylsden Wakes Song
05:46 - Chapter 30
Radcliffe Otter Hunt
06:37 - Chapter 31
The Owdham Recruit
03:36 - Chapter 32
The Cocky Moor Snake
06:52 - Chapter 33
Jone o' Grinfilt's Ramble [John of Greenfield's Ramble]
23:25 - Chapter 34
The Burnley Haymakers
06:15 - Chapter 35
The Praise of Lancashire Men
03:42 - Chapter 36
Will, the Ferryman
03:47 - Chapter 37
The Lovers' Leap
02:21 - Chapter 38
Death of an Old Huntsman
02:59 - Chapter 39
Handloom Versus Powerloom
02:46 - Chapter 40
Gorton Town
05:00 - Chapter 41
The Hand-Loom Weavers' Lament
03:24 - Chapter 42
The Middleton Overseer and the Madman
05:21 - Chapter 43
Mary Melvin of the Mersey Side
03:25 - Chapter 44
Grimshaw's Factory Fire
04:03 - Chapter 45
The Bonny Gray
02:13 - Chapter 46
The Lancashire Witches
01:55