Broadside Ballads

Songs from the Streets, Taverns, Theaters, and Countryside of 17th-Century England

• A Ballad Of The Stange And Wonderful Storm Of Hail
• A Ballad Upon Tobacco
• A Caveat For Cutpurses
• A Delightful Ditty Of Mother Watkin's Ale
• A Merry Jest Of John Thompson And Jakaman His Wife
• An Old Song On The Spanish Armada
• Courage Crowned With Conquest
• Cupids Courtisie / The Young Gallant Foil'd At His Own Weapon
• Custard Eaters, A Warning To All
• Diddle Diddle / The Kind Country Lovers
• Drive The Cold Winter Away
• England's Great Prognosticator
• Good Advice To Batchelors
• Gunpowder Plot
• Harvest Home
• Hey, Then Up We Go
• Jigg - The Cheaters Cheated
• Jockey's Lamentation / Over The Hills And Far Away
• London Mourning In Ashes
• Lumps Of Pudding
• Modesty Amazed / The Dorsetshire Damosel Importunate With Her Mother
• My Dog And I
• Neptune's Raging Fury / The Gallant Seaman's Sufferings
• Old England Grown New
• Oyster Nan
• Seldom Cleanly
• Shameless Joan / The Old Woman Of Finsbury
• The Baffled Knight
• The Beehive
• The Bonnie Grey-Eyed Morn / The Jockey Roused With Love
• The Country Lass
• The Countryman's Joy
• The Courteous Carman And The Amorous Maid
• The Courtiers Health / The Merry Boys Of The Times
• The Crafty Maid / The Batchellour Outwitted
• The Crost Couple / A Good Misfortune
• The Doleful Dance And Song Of Death
• The Downfall Of Dancing / The Overthrow Of Three Fidlers
• The Dumpling Woman's Delight
• The Fair Maid Of Islington / The London Vintner Over-Reach'd
• The Famous Ratcatcher With His Travels
• The Female Captain / The Counterfit Bridegroom
• The Gelding Of The Devil
• The Great Boobee
• The Husband That Met His Match
• The Irish Jigg / The Night Ramble
• The Jolly Miller / The Old Wife
• The Jolly Tradesmen
• The Joviall Broome Man
• The Joviall Lass / Doll And Roger
• The Lancashire Cuckold
• The Lunatick Lover
• The Maid's Complaint For Want Of A Dil Doul
• The North Country Lovers
• The Northern Lasses Lamentation / The Unhappy Maid's Misfortune
• The Old Woman's Legacy To Her Cat
• The Saint Turn'd Sinner
• The Seven Merry Wives Of London
• The Sighted Maid / The Pinig Lover
• The Three Ravens
• The Trader's Medley / The Cries Of London
• The Trooper Watering His Nag
• The Vindication Of Top-Knots And Commodes
• The Wiltshire Wedding
• The Winchester Wedding
• True Love Requited / The Bayliff's Daughter Of Islington
• When Cannons Are Roaring
• Would Ye Have A Young Virgin
• You Lasses And Lads