“Geordie”

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“Geordie” is a traditional British folk ballad, widely known through Joan Baez’s influential 1960s recording.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf folk song
murder ballad
traditional British folk ballad
cataloguedIn Child Ballads NERFINISHED
childBalladNumber 209
collectedBy Francis James Child NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
culturalOrigin English folk tradition
dateOfEarliestKnownText 17th century
featuresCharacter Geordie NERFINISHED
Geordie’s wife
genre ballad
folk
hasAlternateTitle Geordie, He’s Gone to Jail NERFINISHED
Geordie, Who’s That At My Window? NERFINISHED
hasForm strophic song
hasSubject capital punishment
social inequality
hasTheme crime
execution
justice
wrongful conviction
hasVariant American versions of Geordie
English versions of Geordie
Scottish versions of Geordie
includedIn Anglo-American folk song tradition
traditional British folk repertoire
influenced 1960s folk revival repertoire
language English
motif plea for mercy before a judge
public execution
ransom offered to save condemned man
narrativeForm first-person narration
notableRecordingDate 1961
performancePractice traditionally sung unaccompanied or with simple accompaniment
popularizedBy Joan Baez NERFINISHED
recordedBy A. L. Lloyd NERFINISHED
Ewan MacColl NERFINISHED
Joan Baez NERFINISHED
June Tabor NERFINISHED
Martin Carthy NERFINISHED
Nic Jones NERFINISHED
recordedOnAlbum Joan Baez, Vol. 2 NERFINISHED
setting England
London, England
surface form: London
subjectMatter a man condemned for alleged theft or poaching

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album "Joan Baez in Concert" hasPart “Geordie”
subject surface form: Joan Baez in Concert
Bill Travers notableWork “Geordie”
this entity surface form: Geordie