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The song in this video, the resurrected sweetheart is one of the many ballads recorded by. To be quite frank, i wasnt prepared for what came through my headphones that winter evening i felt transported to another time, another place far away from. His last work 1972 was the nilesmerton song cycles, settings of poems of the trappist monk thomas merton. The ballad book of john jacob niles uknowledge university of. The ballad was widely known in england and the murdered boy niles no. Study book 1950, and the ballad book of john jacob niles 1961. Each of niles, main entries includes a general introduction to the scholarly. Th america texts usually agre e wit h th englishscottis texts, and the actual reasons for the tragedy remain obscure.
The ballad book of john jacob nilesbrings together a wealth of songs with the stories that inspired them, arranged by a gifted performer. Ballad book of john jacob niles by john jacob niles. His published works include songs my mother never taught me 1929. Matty groves, also known as little musgrave and lady barnard or little musgrave, is a ballad probably originating in northern england that describes an adulterous tryst between a young man and a noblewoman that is ended when the womans husband discovers and kills them.