Broadside Ballads Online

Titles:
Sorrowful sighings of a broken and contrite heart

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Young people all both far and near

Themes:
Murder

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Lamentation on the dreadful robbery & murder of the widow Ryan & child

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You tender-hearted Christians, of country and of town

Themes:
Murder

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The Yorkshire tragedy, giving an account of the murder of Rachael Crossley ... by William Shaw

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You lovers all, pray now attend

Subjects:
Huddersfield (England)

Themes:
Murder

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A copy of verses composed on the horrid murder committed on Friday, October the 6th 1826, by William Timpson, on the body of Sarah Timpson his wife

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Good Christians all I pray attend and lend a silent ear

Themes:
Murder

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Widow Macfarlane's lamentation for her son

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On the banks of Clyde I happened to wander

Themes:
Murder

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The Sutton-in-Ashfield tragedy

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The greatest of all miracles I'm going to unfold

Themes:
Murder

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The Islington tragedy

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A warning take by my sad fate

Subjects:
Somner, Celestia
Islington (England)

Themes:
Murder

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Dennis and Mary, or love and revenge

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Near Liverpool, in Lancashire

Subjects:
Liverpool (England)

Themes:
Murder

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The Leominster tragedy, ... on the murder of Mary Cadwallader, by her husband

First Lines:
The sun had bow'd its crimson head

Themes:
Murder

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Sentence on Mrs. Dyer for the Reading murders

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Mrs. Dyer's convicted and sentenced to be hung

Themes:
Murder

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Sally and Billy, or the Fatal repulse
Sally and Billy, or the fatal repulse

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Young Billy went a courting

Themes:
Murder

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The fathers, lament, for his son, Laureenc [sic], King

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Atend [sic] each loveing [sic] parent and listen to this tragedy

Themes:
Murder

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Lines on the sad fate of Charles Peace

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The scaffold now has done its duty

Themes:
Murder

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Barbarous murder near Stoke. A widow, named Martha Silitoe, 70 years of age, has been cruelly murdered

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At the village of Hanford, near Stoke-upon-Trent

Themes:
Murder

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The Gloucestershire tragedy; or, The unnatural mother

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Both young and old I pray draw near

Themes:
Murder

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Lines written on the condemned men for the Phoenix park murders

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Miserable indeed must those poor men be

Themes:
Murder

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Copy of verses on the shocking wife murder at Boston, Lincolnshire

First Lines:
You feeling Christians pay attention

Subjects:
Boston (England)

Themes:
Murder

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A ne[w] song called the Lochamn tragedy. Or the lamentable lines on Patrick Power, who was executed ... for the murder of his fatber [sic]

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All you that have kind feeling hearts, with me now sympatize [sic]

Themes:
Murder

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Sarah Gale's lament

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As I walk'd down by the walls of Newgate

Themes:
Murder

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Lines on the fearful murder near Burselm, on the 5th of October, 1878, when ... Eliza Bloor, was brutally murdered

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A dreadful murder near to Burselm

Themes:
Murder

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Lines on the funeral procession... in Cork city, on Sunday Dec., 1st, to the memory of Wm Allen, Michl. O'Brien, Michl Larkin

First Lines:
You sons of the green land of Erin

Themes:
Murder

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The Hallgarth mill tragedy

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Great God thine eye sees far and wide

Themes:
Murder

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Mary Martin and Abel Hill

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At Bradley-bridge in Strafforshire [sic]

Themes:
Murder

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The Bellevue baby mrs. Cunningham's adopted

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A doctor of note in New York did dwell

Themes:
Murder

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The bloody squire, or the Derbyshire tragedy. A new song

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Come all you jovial farmers bold, and damsels sweet and fair

Themes:
Murder