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folk ballad

n. a song that is traditionally sung by the common people of a region and forms part of their culture [syn: folk song, folksong]

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.