Border ballad
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Border ballads are a group of songs in the long tradition of balladry collected from the Anglo-Scottish border. Like all traditional ballads, they were traditionally sung unaccompanied. There may be a
A copy of Scott's Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border in the National Museum of Scotland
Kinmont Willie
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"Kinmont Willie" or "Kinmount Willie" is a ballad from the English-Scottish border country, catalogued as Child ballad 186. It recounts the rescue of William Armstrong of Kinmont from an English priso
First page of Kinmont Willie in Scott's Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border.
