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Other 'bonnie boys,' as the ballad has it, trotted along by the side of the horses to which they were attached in the like fashion, though they had hose and shoon slung over their shoulders, to be donned on entering the good town of Berwick-upon-Tweed.
These he transmutes into poetry in "The Ballad of the White Horse.
It is hard to carry the ballad meter through a whole volume without its growing monotonous.
"The Ballad of the White Horse" contains some wearisome stretches, particularly in the most exciting parts, the fights.
"The Ballad of the White Horse" (1911, Lane) contains his epic of King Alfred, and "Poems" (1915, Lane) contains all the rest of his poetry except what still remains buried in "the files.
-The ballad of joking Jesus, Stephen answered.
Ben Dollard does sing that ballad touchingly.
The endless ballad had come to an end at last, and the whole diminished company about the camp-fire had broken into the chorus I had heard so often: "Fifteen men on the dead man's chest- Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!
‘And listen,’ she continued, provokingly, commencing a verse of an old ballad in the same fashion.
As Fagin stepped softly in, the professional gentleman, running over the keys by way of prelude, occasioned a general cry of order for a song; which having subsided, a young lady proceeded to entertain the company with a ballad in four verses, between each of which the accompanyist played the melody all through, as loud as he could.
When we rejoined him in the drawing-room he said he would give us a little ballad which had come into his head "apropos of our young friend," and he sang one about a peasant boy, "Thrown on the wide world, doomed to wander and roam, Bereft of his parents, bereft of a home.
Satan's big number, a malicious piece of parody that's one of the funniest movie moments of the year, is a power ballad for a Broadway crowd--imagine an Andrew Lloyd Webber number written for Meat Loaf or, worse, Michael Bolton.
" "Tori Amos" sings a torchy holiday ballad while nearly having sex with a piano leg.
" Harris' hits were (as TV movies say) "based on a true story"--like his grisly ballad of an orphan girl asking the telephone operator to be put through to her dead mother, "Hello, Central, Give Me Heaven.
[LINK TO AUDIO CLIP]Both can find no better use for the pop ballad than as group therapy--one for those suffering the vicissitudes of life as a chorus gypsy, the other for those "living in the shadow of AIDS.
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