Broadside Ballads: England

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  In Memory of William Bray, More Commonly Known "Billy" Bray. Born 1794. Died 1868

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  A song praising a man's pious life.

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  Innocent Mirth

  Author Unknown

  A song about funny things in life.

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  In the Navy

  Author Unknown

  A song praising sailors for protecting their homeland.

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  In the Sun

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  A man has many mishaps involving things named the Sun.

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  Invitation to Sunday Schools

  Author Unknown

  Religious education

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  I Once had a Heart

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  A heart broken woman finds a new lover.

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  Ips, Gips, and Johnson

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  A man is killed by the woman he rescues after being confronted by her robber friends.

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  Irish Divorce

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  Troubled marriage has a troubling end

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  Irish Immigrant

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  An Irish man immigrates after his wife and child died.

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  Irish Stranger

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  Lamenting isolation from Ireland

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  I shall be Married on Monday Morning

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  A maiden is eager to be married.

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  I shall be Married on Monday Morning

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  A maiden is eager to be married.

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  I should like to Marry

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  A woman is picky about who she marries

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  I should very much like to Know

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  A woman wants to know the identity of her admirer.

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  Isle of Beauty

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  Thinking of home while at sea

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  Isle of Beauty

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  Leaving ones homeland

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  Is there a Heart

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  Dependent on women and love

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  Is There a Heart That Never Loved?

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  Scorn of those who resist a woman's gentleness.

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  Is There Anything Else You'd Like?

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  A man accommodates those who ask for his generosity.

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  I Stood Amid the Glittering Throng

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  A man remembers a dance with a country girl.

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  It is not on the Battlefield

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  Would rather die in a lovers arms than on a battlefield

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  I've Journey'd Over Many Lands

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  Memory of his love sustains his journeys

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  Ivy Green

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  Survival and persistence of ivy

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  Jack and the Bear Skin

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  Jack hunts bears in the Baltic Sea and returns with a skin to prove himself to his love

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  Jack Rag

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  Jack performing and imitating famed deeds for money or applause

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  Jack Robinson

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  Jack Robinson returns from sea looking for his love, Polly Gray

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  Jack's the Lad

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  Jack takes pleasure in fighting, drinking, dancing and kissing

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  Jack's the Lad

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  A poem about a lively sailor.

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  Jack Tar's Drunken Frolic in Wapping

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  A sailor is tricked into sleeping with a corpse and has his money stolen.

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  Jack Williams

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  Man steals for a greedy and ungrateful woman

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  James and Flora United

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  A woman disguises herself as a man and sets sail with her lover.

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  Jeannot's Answer to Jeannette

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  A soldier promises to be true to his lover upon his return.

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  Jemmy's Farewell

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  A departing sailor gives his love a ring.

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  Jesus, Justice, and Sinner

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  Conversation between Justice, Jesus and a Sinner

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  Joan's Ale was New

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  Procession of men drinking Joan's ale

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  Jockey and Jenny's Trip to the Fair

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  A couple sneak out to go to a fair and fall in love.

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  Jockey to the Fair

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  A young couple sneak out to a fair.

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  Jock of Hazledean

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  Woman's love for the Jock of Hazledean

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  Joe the Marine

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  Brave British Joe leaves Polly, his wife, for battle

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  John Adwire Anglanna

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  A man talks to a beautiful woman

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  John and Marry Ann's Discussion of Matrimony

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  A couple make up after a fight.

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  John Bull, all a-Gog

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  Nationalistic piece concerning British might and the Napoleonic Wars

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  John Bull and His Ally

  Author Unknown

  A song on the British and French alliance for the Crimean War

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  John Bull's Return from France

  Author Unknown

  A song on the British fleeing France during war.

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  John Mitchell's Return

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  Song concerning Irish home rule and refusal to include an Irishman in the British House of Commons

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  Johnny Doyle

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  A woman is faithful to her forced marriage.

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  John Peel : a New Hunting Song

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  Hunting song concerning the characher of John Peel, based on 18th century British farmer and huntsman

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  Jolly Young Waterman

  Author Unknown

  Carefree boatman is happy in life