| Their roots were firmly in the ballads and traditional music in the early days. |
| He cherished some lovely old books containing the folk songs and traditional ballads of our land. |
| Narrative folk ballads of Mexican origin typically have regular metrical features such as rhyming quatrains and use traditional imagery. |
| There are ballads, blues and western swing, and Burch describes it as music you might hear in a dream and try in vain to remember in the morning. |
| Pipe tunes, mouth music, jigs and reels nestle alongside songs and ballads, most originating from Fowlis' native South Uist. |
| Such features are very prominent in nursery rhymes and ballads, where frequently pleasure lies in rhythm, incantation, and strangeness of image. |
