Need some ideas to write a ballad of your own?

Click on the ballad to see it full size.

Try this website. It has authentic material with transcriptions of ballads, etc. It's hard to beat those murder ballads!

http://www.nls.uk/broadsides/highlights_ballads.html

This is also an excellent website for understanding the background to broadside ballads.

http://mh.cla.umn.edu/prosstre.html