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Ancient Songs and Ballads of Lancashire

Name: Ancient Songs and Ballads of Lancashire
Author: John Harland

John Harland

Read by Phil Benson · LibriVox · public domain · Archive.org recording · License

Chapters

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Introduction, by T. T. Wilkinson (14:58)
Fragment of an Ancient Ballad of a Tyrannical Husband; The Old Man and his Wife (13:59)
A Trafford and Byron Feud; The Bewsey Tragedy and its Legend (15:18)
The Lancashire Heroes; Flodden Field (19:38)
A Love Song; A Balade of Maryage (4:51)
The Blessed Conscience (16:08)
The Radcliffe Tragedy of Fair Ellen (11:01)
James I. and the Loin of Beef (1:55)
Warrikin Fair (6:10)
Brigadier Macintosh's Escape and Farewell (12:21)
Long Preston Peggy; Jemmy Dawson (15:58)
The Preston Prisoners to the Ladies about Court and Town (3:48)
Townley's Ghost (6:26)
The Three Sisters and The Miller and the King's Daughter (9:53)
Lancashire May Songs (18:35)
Wassail Song (2:16)
The Liverpool Tragedy (16:08)
Stoneyhurst Buck Hunt (10:18)
The Unfortunate Love of a Lancashire Gentleman (11:25)
Careless Content by John Byrom (5:35)
The Frog and the Crow (2:53)
Dick o' Stanley Green (3:45)
Blakeley Courtship (4:38)
The Lancashire Miller (2:04)
Contentment by John Byrom (3:44)
Sir Gualter (3:59)
The Hermit of Kersall Cell by John Leigh (5:59)
Warrington Ale (2:09)
Droylsden Wakes Song (5:46)
Radcliffe Otter Hunt (6:37)
The Owdham Recruit (3:36)
The Cocky Moor Snake (6:52)
Jone o' Grinfilt's Ramble [John of Greenfield's Ramble] (23:25)
The Burnley Haymakers (6:15)
The Praise of Lancashire Men (3:42)
Will, the Ferryman (3:47)
The Lovers' Leap (2:21)
Death of an Old Huntsman (2:59)
Handloom Versus Powerloom (2:46)
Gorton Town (5:00)
The Hand-Loom Weavers' Lament (3:24)
The Middleton Overseer and the Madman (5:21)
Mary Melvin of the Mersey Side (3:25)
Grimshaw's Factory Fire (4:03)
The Bonny Gray (2:13)
The Lancashire Witches (1:55)