WordNet
Usage examples of "folk ballad".
After a moment she began to play an old folk ballad, improvising a bridge of notes, followed by a spray of odd harmonies.
Kai was whistling an Althean folk ballad that had been popular at the Rozinki taverns.
Yet the song was no oddly syncopated Earthling ballad, but a Jijoan folk ballad, familiar as a lullaby.
If whatever had happened in my living room happened again, the whole bar would be treated to the sight of my flipping out over a thirty-year-old garage-folk ballad.