Broadside Ballads: England

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  Duke Williams Frolic

  Author Unknown

  Duke William corrects the mistreatment of sailors impressed into service.

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  Dumble Dum Deary

  Author Unknown

  A man promises a housewife life to a woman.

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  Each has a Lover but Me

  Author Unknown

  A woman wants a man to marry.

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  Eden Deserted or Paradise Lost

  Author Unknown

  A man laments the failure of a political agenda in Parliament.

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  Edwin and Flora

  Author Unknown

  A young couple agrees to marry.

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  Effects of Love!

  Author Unknown

  A shamed, heart broken woman takes her own life.

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  Elfish Finale

  Author Unknown

  Let the air with merry strains resound

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  Ella McMahon

  Author Unknown

  A man loves an Irish woman

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  End of the Tichborne Case

  Author Unknown

  Song concerning the Tichborne Case in which Arthur Orton claimed to be Sir. Roger Tichborne

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  England's Expected Change

  Author Unknown

  A song about taxing all luxuries and the upcoming marriage of Prince Albert and Queen Victoria.

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  England: The Home of the World

  Author Unknown

  A song on the greatness of England.

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  Englishman

  Author Unknown

  A song on the greatness of being a subject of Great Britain

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  Erin's Green Shore

  Author Unknown

  Concerning a woman who has come to awaken my brethren / That slumber on Erin's green shore

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  Erin's Green Shore

  Author Unknown

  Concerning a woman who has come to awaken my brethren / That slumber on Erin's green shore

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  Erin's Lovely Home

  Author Unknown

  Man banished from Ireland for attempting to steal away with a wealthy woman

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  Evening Bells

  Author Unknown

  A man reflects on his life when he hears familiar bells

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  Every Inch A Sailor

  Author Unknown

  A sets sail again after returning home from dangerous adventures to be shunned by his love.

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  Execution of William Mobbs, At Aylcsbury, for the Murder of Thomas J. Newbury

  Author Unknown

  A man is executed for murder.

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  Fair Betsy of Deptford, and her Young Sailor Bold

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  A sailor marries his lover after being overseas for 8 years.

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  Fair Ellen

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  Fair Ellen loses her beauty with her innocence

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  Fair Phoebe and Her Dark Eyed Sailor

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  A woman meets her lover while morning his death

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  Fair Phoebe and Her Dark Eyed Sailor

  Author Unknown

  Woman reconnects with her love, a sailor long at sea

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  Fair Sally

  Author Unknown

  A woman dies from grief when her lover goes to war.

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  Fall of the Leaf

  Author Unknown

  Contemplation of human death and falling leaves

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  Famed Bow Street

  Author Unknown

  Silly courtroom trials

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  Fanny Gray

  Author Unknown

  Woman waiting for a man who loves Fanny Gray

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  Fare Thee Well

  Author Unknown

  Break-up song

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  Fare Thee Well My Love Good Morrow

  Author Unknown

  A woman is shunned by society after having sex.

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  Far, far upon the Sea

  Author Unknown

  A crew are happy to sail for Great Britain.

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  Farmer's Boy

  Author Unknown

  A young drifter asks for employment at a farm and inherits a farm and the farmer's daughter hand in marriage.

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  Farmer's Boy

  Author Unknown

  Poor young boy works for a farmer after his father dies

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  Father, Father, Do Come Home

  Author Unknown

  A family in poverty wishes their father to come home.

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  Fathers Got 'Em

  Author Unknown

  A father is violent and temperamental after a stroke.

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  Father Tom O'Neale

  Author Unknown

  A clergyman is acquitted of his charges after another man claims to be the father of a lying woman's baby.

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  Favourite Hunting Song

  Author Unknown

  A rabbit is hunted by dogs and men.

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  Female Cabin Boy

  Author Unknown

  A woman disguises herself as a sailor, has a baby, which no one claims.

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  Female Drummer

  Author Unknown

  A woman who joined the military was found out and married a soldier.

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  Fisherman's Boy

  Author Unknown

  Fisherman's son orphaned and seeking help

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  Flogging of women

  Author Unknown

  Brief article on the abuse of female slaves by ministers.

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  Flora and Donald

  Author Unknown

  Death of two lovers in the Massacre of Glencoe

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  Flora May

  Author Unknown

  A man misses his love, who set sail.

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  Flora the Lilly of the West

  Author Unknown

  Details a tragic love story.

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  Forget Not the Soldier

  Author Unknown

  A soldier wishes for his love to remember him.

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  Forget Not the Soldier

  Author Unknown

  Remember the loved one's fighting in foreign lands.

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  For I can Drink and Fight a Little

  Author Unknown

  A rowdy sailor calls to arms other sailors to stand and fight against Napoleon

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  For Old Times Sake

  Author Unknown

  After fighting over a woman two brothers reunite years later.

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  Fortunate Factory Girl

  Author Unknown

  Wealthy man loves a poor woman

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  Fortunate Sailor

  Author Unknown

  Song concerning the power of money