Dafydd's Random Music

"Riddles Wisely Expounded" is the first ballad in Francis Child's collection . In it a knight comes wooing three sisters. The ...

"The Nutting Girl", sung by Ashley Hutchings and friends from the album Morris On . Ashley was a founding member of Fairport Conv...

‎"By Chance It Was" performed by Clannad. This was collected by Sabine Baring-Gould in Devonshire and tune and words were publishe...

Child Ballad 10: The Cruel Sisters, also known as The Twa Sisters. Evidently in addition to strange knights, you can't trust your sister...

The Flower of Northumberland, sung by Alistair Hulett. Don't trust the promises of strange knights seems to be a theme in the first few ...

Child Ballad 7: Earl Brand. I'm surprised that this is the only version I can find, I know it's been recorded elsewhere. This is the...

Child 5: Gil Breton. This one has a complicated plot involving adultery, but not really. I never heard of this guy before, but he's pret...