Broadside Ballads: England

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  The Lottery

  Author Unknown

  People put faith in superstitions for a lottery.

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  The Lover's Lament

  Author Unknown

  While traveling, a man's love marries another man and he tries to forget her.

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  The Low Back'd Chair

  Author Unknown

  Courtship and subsequent paternity fight

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  The Lowland Queen

  Author Unknown

  A man will marry a woman he loves.

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  The Maid of Cranbourn Ally

  Author Unknown

  A man contemplates killing a woman but does not.

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  The Maid of Lodi

  Author Unknown

  A man is nursed to health by a country woman after he is robbed.

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  The Mail Coach

  Author Unknown

  Playful satirical piece

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  The Manchester Cadger!

  Author Unknown

  A beggar scams people for their charity.

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  The Maniac

  Author Unknown

  A man's love drives him mad

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  The Maniac

  Author Unknown

  A man's love drives him mad

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  The Maniac

  Author Unknown

  A man's love has led others to believe he is mentally ill.

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  The Maniac

  Author Unknown

  A man's love drives him mad

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  The Man that has seen Better Days

  Author Unknown

  Decline of a man from wealthy to poor

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  The Mantle So Green

  Author Unknown

  Woman's love dies at Waterloo

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  The Margate Steam Yacht

  Author Unknown

  A song about England and its elite social classes.

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  The Mariner's Grave

  Author Unknown

  A sailor's friends silently bury his body.

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  The Mariner's Grave

  Author Unknown

  A sailor's friends silently bury his body.

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  The Marseillaise Hymn

  Author Unknown

  A call to Frenchmen to defend liberty and fight tyrants.

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  The May Pole

  Author Unknown

  Men and women dancing around May Pole at festival

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  The May Pole

  Author Unknown

  A woman swears to never marry until her soldier comes home.

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  The Merchant's Daughter

  Author Unknown

  A woman is denied marriage to a sailor by her father and joins a ship's crew

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  The Merchant's Daughter and Constant Farmer's Son

  Author Unknown

  Ill-fated romance between William and Mary as her brothers interfere

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  The Mermaid

  Author Unknown

  A song about a ship going down in a storm.

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  The Merry Fidler Done Over

  Author Unknown

  A fiddler has to pay for a son he fathered and the mother's floor he destroyed.

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  The Methodist Parson

  Author Unknown

  A preacher is sneaking bacon from a man's wife.

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  The Midnight Messenger

  Author Unknown

  In a dialogue between Death, and a Rich Man, who, in the midst of all his Wealth, received the tidings of his Last Day, to his unspeakable and sorrowful Lamentation.

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  The Midnight Watch

  Author Unknown

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  The Minstrel to his Steed

  Author Unknown

  A man gives his prize horse as a gift for his lord's wedding day.

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  The Minute-Gun at Sea

  Author Unknown

  Dangers of the sea

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  The Monkey Turned Barber

  Author Unknown

  A man is shaved by a monkey.

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  The Monkey who has Seen the World, a new song

  Author Unknown

  Song concerning the travel and cultural education of Mr. Pug, the monkey.

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  The Monks of Old

  Author Unknown

  Monks drink and share stories of their lives.

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  The Monks of Old

  Author Unknown

  Monks drink and share stories of their lives.

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  The Month of May

  Author Unknown

  Concerning May and love

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  The Moon is on the Hill

  Author Unknown

  A man wants his love to wake.

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  The Moon is on the Water

  Author Unknown

  A couple are faithful in their love to each other.

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  The Moon is on the Water

  Author Unknown

  A couple are faithful in their love to each other.

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  The Moon is on the Waters

  Author Unknown

  A man praises a woman's love for him.

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  The Moonlit Sea

  Author Unknown

  A man longs for his love to be near him.

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  The Moon Shines Bright

  Author Unknown

  A Christmas Carol

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  The Morn was Gay

  Author Unknown

  A bride doesn't wish to leave her father's home.

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  The Morn was Gay

  Author Unknown

  A woman's separation from her family upon her marriage day

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  The Mountains High

  Author Unknown

  A man encounters a woman on a mountain top.

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  The Negro Boy Sold for a Watch

  Author Unknown

  A man laments selling a young slave

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  The New Deserter

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  The Duke of York pardons a deserter's crimes.

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  The New Deserter

  Author Unknown

  The Duke of York pardons a deserter's crimes.

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  The New Fashions

  Author Unknown

  A poem about the fashions of women.

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  The New Garden Field

  Author Unknown

  A man eventually wins a woman's heart.