Ballads
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The ballad in literature
Medieval song
The two magicians
Memory in oral traditions
TROUBADOR'S STORYBAG
The pub and the people
Best Contemporary Ballads
The Spanish ballads
My country, 'tis of thee
Kingdom cons
Ballads and songs of Lancashire
The Walled-Up Wife
Ancient ballads and legends of Hindustan
All on a May morning
Story-telling ballads
Essays on song-writing
Ballads of old New York
The old ballad of the babes in the wood
Salt water ballads and poems
Jazz Ballads
The songcatcher
Skippyjon Jones in the dog house
Ballads (Traditional Black Music)
Read 'em and weep
The book of ballads
Songs and Ballads of the Maine Lumberjacks with Other Songs from Maine
A Collection of Ballads
Forget me not songster
Ancient Spanish ballads
Ballads of a Cheechako
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