Francis J. Child Ballads
A Complete List
The background music is
Lord Bateman
(Variant of Child Ballad #53)
Sequenced by Lesley Nelson-Burns
The titles of ballads are exactly as appear in The English and Scottish Popular Ballads Table of Contents. I could not possibly include all the variant titles for all of the ballads. Variant titles ARE listed on the pages of those ballads for which I have music, so you can use the Search Engine to try to find a ballad if the exact title is not here. If you are looking for a particular number or ballad title you can use your browser's menu: Edit | Find in Page to locate it on this page.
If the title is a link, the link will lead you to a page with a midi, lyrics and information regarding the ballad or a variant of the ballad. If the link is marked with an asterisk the page will have a link to a page with the full text of all variants found in The English and Scottish Popular Ballads .
The link is only to one midi/lyrics version of the ballad. Many of the ballads have more than one variant at this site. For a list of all of the Child Ballad midi/lyrics pages, visit (or return to) the Main Page .
Child Ballads
Volume I: 1-53
Volume II: 54-113
Volume III: 114-188
#114: Johnie Cock
#115: Robyn and Gandeleyn
#116: Adam Bell, Clim of the Clough and William of Cloudesly
#117: A Gest of Robyn Hode
#118: Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne *
#119: Robin Hood and the Monk
#120: Robin Hood's Death
#121: Robin Hood and the Potter
#122: Robin Hood and the Butcher
#123: Robin Hood and the Curtal Friar
#124: The Jolly Pinder of Wakefield
#125: Robin Hood and Little John
#126: Robin Hood and the Tanner
#127: Robin Hood and the Tinker
#128: Robin Hood and the Newly Revived
#129: Robin Hood and the Prince of Aragon
#130: Robin Hood and the Scotchman
#131: Robin Hood and the Ranger
#132: The Bold Pedlar and Robin Hood
#133: Robin Hood and the Beggar, I
#134: Robin Hood and the Beggar, II
#135: Robin Hood and the Shepherd
#136: Robin Hood's Delight
#137: Robin Hood and the Pedlars
#138: Robin Hood and Allen a Dale
#139: Robin Hood's Progress to Nottingham
#140: Robin Hood Rescuing Three Squires
#141: Robin Hood Rescuing Will Stutly
#142: Little John a Begging
#143: Robin Hood and the Bishop
#144: Robin Hood and the Bishop of Hereford *
#145: Robin Hood and Queen Katherine
#146: Robin Hood's Chase
#147: Robin Hood's Golden Prize
#148: The Noble Fisherman or Robin Hood's Preferment
#149: Robin Hood's Birth, Breeding, Valor and Marriage
#150: Robin Hood and Maid Marian
#151: The King's Disguise, and Friendship with Robin Hood
#152: Robin Hood and the Golden Arrow
#153: Robin Hood and the Valiant Knight
#154: A True Tale of Robin Hood
#155: Sir Hugh, or the Jew's Daughter
#156: Queen Eleanor's Confession
#157: Gude Wallace
#158: High Spencer's Feats in France
#159: Durham Field
#160: The Knight of Liddesdale
#161: The Battle of Otterburn
#162: The Hunting of the Cheviot
#163: The Battle of Harlaw *
#164: King Henry Fifth's Conquest of France
#165: Sir John Butler
#166: The Rose of England
#167: Andrew Bartin
#168: Flodden Field
#169: Johnie Armstrong
#170: The Death of Queen Jane
#171: Thomas Cromwell
#172: Musselburgh Field
#173: Mary Hamilton
#174: Earl Bothwell
#175: The Rising in the North
#176: Northumberland Betrayed by Douglas
#177: The Earl of Westmoreland
#178: Captain Car, or, Edom o Gordon
#179: Rookhope Ryde
#180: King James and Brown
#181: The Bonnie Earl o' Moray
#182: The Laird o Logie
#183: Willie Macintosh
#184: The Lads of Wamphray
#185: Dick o the Cow
#186: Kinmont Willie
#187: Jock o the Side
#188: Archie o Cawfield
Volume IV: 189-265
#189: Hobie Noble
#190: Jamie Telfer of the Fair Dodhead
#191: Hughie Graham
#192: The Lochmaben Harper
#193: The Death of Parcy Reed
#194: The Laird of Wariston
#195: Lord Maxwell's Last Goodnight
#196: The Fire of Frendraught
#197: James Grant
#198: Bonny John Seton
#199: Bonnie House o' Airlie
#200: The Gypsy Laddie
#201: Bessy Bell and Mary Gray
#202: The Battle of Philiphaugh
#203: The Baron of Brackley
#204: Jamie Douglas
#205: Loudon Hill, or Dromclog
#206: Bothwell Bridge
#207: Lord Delamere
#208: Lord Dernwentwater
#209: Geordie
#210: Bonnie James Campbell
#211: Bewick and Graham
#212: The Duke of Athole's Nurse
#213: Sir James the Rose
#214: The Braes o Yarrow
#215: Rare Willie Drowned in Yarrow, or, The Water o Gamrie *
#216: The Mother's Malison, or, Clyde's Water
#217: The Broom of Cowdenknows
#218: The False Lover Won Back
#219: The Gardener
#220: The Bonny Lass of Anglesey
#221: Katherine Jafray
#222: Bonny Baby Livingston
#223: Epie Morrie
#224: The Lady of Arngosk
#225: Rob Roy
#226: Lizie Lindsay
#227: Bonny Lizie Baillie
#228: Glasgow Peggie
#229: Earl Crawford
#230: The Slaughter of the Laird of Mellerstain
#231: The Earl of Errol
#232: Richie Story
#233: Andrew Lammie
#234: Charlie MacPherson
#235: The Earl of Aboyne
#236: The Laird o Drum
#237: The Duke of Gordon's Daughter
#238: Glenlogie or Jean o Bethalnie
#239: Lord Saltoun and Auchanachie
#240: The Rantin Laddie
#241: The Baron o Leys
#242: The Coble o Cargin
#243: James Harris, (The Daemon Lover)
#244: James Hatley
#245: Young Allan
#246: Redesdale and Wise William
#247: Lady Elspat
#248: The Grey Cock, or, Saw You My Father
#249: Auld Matrons
#250: Henry Martyn
#251: Lang Johnny More
#252: The Kitchie-Boy
#253: Thomas o Yonderdale
#254: Lord William, or Lord Lundy
#255: Willie's Fatal Visit
#256: Alison and Willie
#257: Burd Isabel and Earl Patrick
#258: Broughty Wa's
#259: Lord Thomas Stuart
#260: Lord Thomas and Lady Margaret
#261: Lady Isabel
#262: Lord Livingston
#263: The New-Slain Knight
#264: The White Fisher
#265: The Knight's Ghost
Volume V: 266-305
#266: John Thomson and the Turk
#267: The Heir of Linne
#268: The Twa Knights
#269: Lady Diamond
#270: The Earl of Mar's Daughter
#271: The Lord of Lorn and the False Steward
#272: The Suffolk Miracle
#273: King Edward the Fourth and a Tanner of Tamworth
#274: Our Goodman
#275: Get Up and Bar the Door
#276: TheFriar in the Well
#277: The Wife Wrapt in Wether's Skin
#278: The Farmer's Curst Wife *
#279: The Jolly Beggar
#280: The Beggar-Laddie
#281: The Keach I the Creel
#282: Jock the Leg and the Merry Merchant
#283: The Crafty Farmer *
#284: John Dory
#285: The George Aloe and the Sweepstake
#286: The Sweet Trinity (The Golden Vanity)
#287: Captain Ward and the Rainbow
#288: The Young Earl of Essex's Victory Over the Emperor of Germany
#289: The Mermaid
#290: The Wylie Wife of the Hie Toun Hie
#291: Child Owlet
#292: The West-Country Damosel's Complaint
#293: John of Hazelgreen
#294: Dugal Quin
#295: The Brown Girl
#296: Walter Lesly
#297: Earl Rothes
#298: Young Peggy
#299: Trooper and Maid
#300: Blancheflour and Jellyflorice
#301: The Queen of Scotland
#302: Young Bearwell
#303: The Holy Nunnery
#304: Young Ronald
#305: The Outlaw Murray
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