Ancient Songs and Ballads of Lancashire: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Ancient Songs and Ballads of Lancashire, credited to John Harland, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Ancient Songs and Ballads of Lancashire by John Harland. Read in English by Phil Benson. Traditional songs and ballads from Lancashire in the north-west of England from the opening section of John Harland's collection, Ballads and Songs of Lancashire, Ancient and Modern. The ballads and songs in this section are from the eighteenth century and earlier, and mostly by unknown authors. - Summary by Philip Benson

Recording facts

• Recording title: Ancient Songs and Ballads of Lancashire
• Author credits: John Harland
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 46
• Listed recording duration: 5:39:19

Catalogue topics

• Ballads
• Lancashire
• English History

Opening tracks: first 24 of 46

1. 00 - Introduction, by T. T. Wilkinson — 14:58
2. 01 - Fragment of an Ancient Ballad of a Tyrannical Husband; The Old Man and his Wife — 13:59
3. 02 - A Trafford and Byron Feud; The Bewsey Tragedy and its Legend — 15:18
4. 03 - The Lancashire Heroes; Flodden Field — 19:38
5. 04 - A Love Song; A Balade of Maryage — 4:51
6. 05 - The Blessed Conscience — 16:08
7. 06 - The Radcliffe Tragedy of Fair Ellen — 11:01
8. 07 - James I. and the Loin of Beef — 1:55
9. 08 - Warrikin Fair — 6:10
10. 09 - Brigadier Macintosh's Escape and Farewell — 12:21
11. 10 - Long Preston Peggy; Jemmy Dawson — 15:58
12. 11 - The Preston Prisoners to the Ladies about Court and Town — 3:48
13. 12 - Townley's Ghost — 6:26
14. 13 - The Three Sisters and The Miller and the King's Daughter — 9:53
15. 14 - Lancashire May Songs — 18:35
16. 15 - Wassail Song — 2:16
17. 16 - The Liverpool Tragedy — 16:08
18. 17 - Stoneyhurst Buck Hunt — 10:18
19. 18 - The Unfortunate Love of a Lancashire Gentleman — 11:25
20. 19 - Careless Content by John Byrom — 5:35
21. 20 - The Frog and the Crow — 2:53
22. 21 - Dick o' Stanley Green — 3:45
23. 22 - Blakeley Courtship — 4:38
24. 23 - The Lancashire Miller — 2:04

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