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In this fragment of a broadside ballad, a woman is transported for seven years for drowning her baby boy. The baby struggles out of the water, but she kicks him back in and he drowns. The next day,...

Poor little Joe is an orphan, singing in the street, alone and cold. He follows a lady's carriage. A policeman finds him lying dead in the snow.

The young man falls in love with a richer girl and is sent to war; he returns and finds her locked up in her uncle's house. He releases her and challenges her uncle to fight.

The young man meets a young woman singing of her love. He offers her fine clothes to go with him. She says she will go with him if he will prove true. She spies her former love and says to her new ...

In this sentimental song, the singer recalls happy days gone by. He has come to sing a song, and though he knows no new songs, he can always sing 'The Happy Auld Days that's Awa'.

Fragments of a pastoral love song in which the singer recalls meeting his sweetheart Annie on a hillside.

A crippled tailor walks again after spending a night in a graveyard and seeing a ghost. At Lochawe, there was a crippled tailor who was a laughing stock. Some fellows bet him the price of a suit o...

Travellers have a narrow escape from burkers. When Jock Stewart was a young boy, his father, a tinsmith, sent him, with his sister and niece, to deliver goods that had been ordered in the countrys...

A wicked stepmother inadvertently has her own daughter killed. A long time ago, the man who occupied a castle at Weem was widowed, and remarried. He had a daughter, and his new wife also had a dau...

Piety saves a youth from his father's pact with a mysterious stranger. An old fisherman and his wife and their neighbours were starving as there were no fish to be had. A gentleman came to the riv...