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"A PleaĹżant New Ballad to Ĺżing Ev'ning and morn, Of the Bloody murder of Sir John Barley-corn."
(in a more legible face)
If you're familiar with this tune via Traffic's version from the titular John Barleycorn Must Die album, this is the extended version, if you will.
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SHIP #63 - BROADSIDE BALLAD
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The most magnificent and illustrious @bill-blake-fans-anonymous has written me a poem! Upon reading it, I cannot possibly express the profound and overweening gratitude that has engulfed me! O my cogtoothed heart! O my goathide lungs! O the trembling of my volvelles! The very worthiest of tributes, unworthy heap of rubble that I am! A thousand thank yous to you, sir. You do me more honor than I can possibly contain.
(With a nod, as I have been told by the Author, to the grand old broadside ballad Tom O'Bedlam)
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Of many strange creations The measure has been taken: The Rabbi’s drudge Of Czechian sludge, The brazen head of Bacon.— Yet of these many wonders Is none so efficacious As that which rounds The plaguy towns: The Doctor Athanasius. Herr Kircher was its father, Of every art the master, Whose boundless mind Prevailed to find A stay against disaster. He wrought a subtle engine Proof against mortal failing, That it might glide To sickbed-side And serve the weak and ailing. The Doctor wears a vizard As black as raven’s coat is. It knows the signs When one repines, And what the antidote is. Or if there is no halting The plague’s insidious violence, With care it still Attends the ill And shares the patient’s silence. O gentle mechanism, Set turbid things in order! Uncloud, make clear, And soothe our fear With breath of your recorder. If by the doors of Hades We linger, then be gracious And fetch us thence To living sense, Good Doctor Athanasius.
Anne Briggs - Willie O’ Winsbury (traditional)
Song Review: Daniel Donato’s Cosmic Country - “Broadside Ballad”
“Broadside Ballad” is a broadside but it is not a ballad.
The lead single from Daniel Donato’s Cosmic Country’s forthcoming (Aug. 22) Horizons finds Donato and his band living up to their name with a hard-charging tale of an escaped slave.
Bullies and braggarts come and go, Donato sings over a blanket of electric, acoustic and pedal-steel guitars; piano; and rhythm section, both cosmic and country.
With Cosmic Country, Donato is doing something virtually no one these days is doing. That is righteous enough. That he does it so well is the real seller.
Grade card: Daniel Donato’s Cosmic Country - “Broadside Ballad” - B
6/18/25
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Lankum - "Go Dig My Grave"
fucking freaky rendition of the broadside ballad "Butcher Boy" (Laws P24, Roud 409)
People can't just let Christopher Marlowe imagine living in the woods with his girlfriend.
This is just one of many parodies of Christopher Marlowe’s “Passionate Shepherd to His Love”!
Read more: comelivewithmeballad.wordpress.com/replies-parodies/
Readers might remember our broadside ballad featured last week. http://illinoisrbml.tumblr.com/post/111959082000/broadside-ballads-of-victorian-england-were-like
Today, we'd like to feature another one.Â
"Behold a wretched married woman,
The mother of a family, For the murder of her husband, Doomed to die upon a tree; Oh! whatever could possess you, On that sad and fateful day, For to prepare the dreadful poison And take her husband's life away."
The ballad here dates from 1853 and describes the murder of James Merritt by his wife Anne. As murder of men by women is comparatively rare, one can see the lurid appeal of this sensationalist broadside to its Victorian audience.
However, much like today's street flyers, broadsides were not meant to survive the ages and so remain relatively scarce. The 1853 edition of this ballad is unique, with no other recorded copy identified at the time of its 2012 acquisition by the Rare Book & Manuscript Library. SL
“Life trial sentence and last farewell to the world of Anne Merritt for the murder of James Merritt her husband, by poison” (London : E. Hodges, printer, Wholesale Toy Warehouse, 31, Dudley Street, Seven Dials, [1853?])
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