Broadside Ballads: England

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  Pleasures of Being too Late

  Author Unknown

  Examples of one man's fortunate tardiness

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  Polly Hopkins

  Author Unknown

  An ugly and wealthy man pursues a woman who will not marry him.

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  Polly Oliver's Rambles

  Author Unknown

  Polly travels to London to be with her love

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  Polly Perkins

  Author Unknown

  Romance between a man and Polly Perkins

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  Polly's Love

  Author Unknown

  A sailor kills his wife and unborn child, sets sail, and is killed by her ghost.

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  Polly's Love

  Author Unknown

  A sailor kills his wife and unborn child, sets sail, and is killed by her ghost.

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  Poor Bessy, the Sailor's Bride

  Author Unknown

  A sailor leaves and returns only to find his wife and child are dead.

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  Poor Bill Brown

  Author Unknown

  A friend of Bill Brown avenges his death.

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  Poor Flora on the Banks of the Boyne

  Author Unknown

  Man feigns love for Flora until he bores

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  Poor Little Popery

  Author Unknown

  Parable of relations between the Catholic Church and the Church of England

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  Poor Old Caroline of Edinburgh Town

  Author Unknown

  A woman kills herself after her husband leaves her.

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  Pop Him into Limbo

  Author Unknown

  Men will go to jail for hitting their wives.

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  Portuguese Hymn, on the Nativity

  Author Unknown

  A Christmas Carol

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  Potboy Soldier

  Author Unknown

  A man goes to war to return home to his lover.

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  Potboy Soldier

  Author Unknown

  A man goes to war to return home to his lover.

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  Poverty's No. Sin

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  A poor girl is assaulted; her lover rescues and marries her

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  Pretty Jane

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  A man wants to marry the beautiful Jane during the summer.

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  Pretty Maid Milking her Cow

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  Courtship between a man and a country woman

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  Pretty Maid Walking Her Cow

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  A man and woman marry after she denies him several times.

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  Pretty Peggy of Derby

  Author Unknown

  A soldier is denied love before he goes to war.

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  Pretty Ploughboy

  Author Unknown

  After the ploughman is pressed into service, his lover buys his freedom.

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  Pretty Poll and Honest Jack, A favourite Sea Song

  Author Unknown

  A sailor praises his love and his friend who await his return.

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  Pretty Susan, The Pride of Kildare

  Author Unknown

  A man travels after his love spends his money and leaves him.

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  Prime the Cup, Fill it High

  Author Unknown

  A man's adoration of his love

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  Prime the Cup, Fill it High

  Author Unknown

  A man toasts a woman's loveliness.

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  Queen Bess, A Celebrated Song

  Author Unknown

  A song on how great things were under Elizabeth I

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  Quite Politely

  Author Unknown

  Yorkshire man courting a Lunnun woman

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  Ragged Coat

  Author Unknown

  Human nature as greedy

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  Rakish Young Fellow

  Author Unknown

  Merry song of a man, with lovers at each port, settling on land

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  Rambling Female Sailor

  Author Unknown

  A woman disguises herself as a sailor after her lover dies

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  Rattling Boys of Paddy's Land

  Author Unknown

  Loyalty and courage of the Irish people

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  Red White and Blue

  Author Unknown

  Patriotic song for Britain

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  Reform!

  Author Unknown

  Concerning voting reform and the Reform League

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  Regent Street

  Author Unknown

  A song about fashionable people in London

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  Rejoice in the Lord

  Author Unknown

  A Christmas Carol

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  Richard of Taunton Dean

  Author Unknown

  A man is rejected by a woman for being poor.

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  Ring the Bell Watchman.

  Author Unknown

  A song about the watchman and the church bells.

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  Robin Thompson's Smiddy

  Author Unknown

  A man offers his mother to date another man's daughter.

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  Roger the Plough-Boy

  Author Unknown

  A man gives a woman a ribbon for her hair

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  Rory O'More

  Author Unknown

  Courtship of Rory O'More and Kathleen Bawn

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  Rosa Lea

  Author Unknown

  Man loves a woman in Tennessee, who falls ill

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  Rosalie the Prairie Flower

  Author Unknown

  A beautiful woman on the prairie dies.

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  Rose of Alabama

  Author Unknown

  A slave wants to marry a slave woman named Rose.

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  Rose of Lucerne

  Author Unknown

  Song concerning buying the goods of a Lucerne saleswoman

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  Rosetta and her Gay Ploughboy

  Author Unknown

  A girl falls in love with her father's help

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  Rosin the Beau

  Author Unknown

  A man plans out his death celebrations

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  Rosin the Beau

  Author Unknown

  A man plans out his death celebrations

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  Roving Journeyman

  Author Unknown

  A roving man travels to a town, falls in love with a girl and promises to marry her when he comes back.