Sir Patrick Spens
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"Sir Patrick Spens" is one of the most popular of the Child Ballads, and is of Scottish origin. It is a maritime ballad about a disaster at sea.
Stained-glass window by Charles Cameron Baillie, c.1930
Ruins of Malcolm's Tower, Dunfermline
Child Ballads
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The Child Ballads are 305 traditional ballads from England and Scotland, and their American variants, anthologized by Francis James Child during the second half of the 19th century. Their lyrics and C
Sir Patrick Spens
…Sir Patrick Spens" is one of the most popular of the Child Ballads (No. 58) (Roud 41), and is of Scottish origin. It is a maritime ballad about a disaster at sea. Sir Patrick Spens remains one of the most anthologized…
8 Volume collection of Francis Child English & Scottish Ballads, 1860
Francis Child English & Scottish Ballads, 1860, Vol 1
The 1904 Houghton Mifflin edition of Child's English and Scottish Popular Ballads
Francis James Child collected the words to over 300 British folk ballads.