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Example sentences for: ballad

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These include the uplifting, Guthrie-esque anthem "Paths of Victory" and the Shakespearean ballad "Seven Curses" (a version of the story in Measure for Measure ), both of which were bumped from The Times They Are A-Changin'.
There is a successful pop ballad called “Lady in Red” that worries me every time I hear it because the singer, Mr. de Burgh, has to struggle through three lines ending with the words chance, dance , and romance . As far as I can recall, he pronounces chance with a sharp “a,” and dance with a long “a,” and then he finds himself in the disastrous position of having to pronounce romance with a long “a,” too.
His early published scholarship focused on ballads and ballad heroes of the Texas-Mexican border, and through this research he developed a theory about the formation of Chicano folklore.
The first of these is the possessive, the second represents the vowel of is . (The Joyce title is typical of the author's linguistically inventive but allusive style, and is actually a compound of two proper names: that of Finn MaCool, the Irish folk-hero, and Tim Finnegan, the hero of a music-hall ballad, who sprang to life in the middle of his own wake.)
The Australian bush ballad 37.