*means song written at a later date. Some dates are approximate to aid navigation.
- (1100s) Robin Hood ballads as sung by Wallace House
- (1300s) The Cutty Wren
- (1381*) John Ball by Sydney Carter
- (1400s) The Bitter Withy
- (1550) Of Rente Raysers by Robert Crowley
- (1607) The Poor Mans Joye & the Gentlemen’s Plague
- (1611) The Fowlers’ Complaint
- (1630) A Lanthorne for Landlords
- (1649) The Diggers’ Song
- (1649*) The World Turned Upside Down by Leon Rosselson
- (1692*) The Massacre of Glencoe by Jim Mclean
- (1707*) Such a Parcel of Rogues in a Nation by Robert Burns
- (1769) The Death of Bill Brown
- (1778) The Cottager’s Complaint
- (1780) Die Gedanken Sind Frei
- (1790*) Smile In Your Sleep by Jim McLean
- (1809) Petition of the Pigs in Kent
- (1814*) Dùthaich Mhic Aoidh by Ewan Robertson
- (1830) Eight shillings a week
- (1830) Owslebury lads
- (1834*) Tolpuddle Man by Graham Moore
- (1840) Song On The Times
- (1846) The Blackstone-Edge Song by Ernest Jones
- (1849) Chartists poems and songs
- (1851*) The Ballad Of Crowfoot by Willie Dunn
- (1866) Ballad of Berkhamsted Common
- (1872) My master and I
- (1882*) Land Corporation of Ireland song by Duncan Bourne
- (1884) The Foresters’ Egg! A Timely Warning!
- (1885) other ‘Three Acres And A Cow’ themed ballads
- (1885) Three Acres And A Cow
- (1887) The Land Song
- (1915*) Mrs Barbours’ Army by Alistair Hulett
- (1932) Manchester Rambler by Ewan MacColl
- (1948) Ballad of the Men of Knoydart by Hamish Henderson
- (1960) Freedom Come All Ye by Hamish Henderson
- (1960) Hey Ho, Cook and Rowe by Peggy Seeger
- (1976*) From Little Things Big Things Grow by Paul Kelly
- (1985) The Battle of the Beanfield by The Levellers
- (1987) Beds Are Burning by Midnight Oil
- (1999) A Place Called England by Maggie Holland
- (2015) The Ballad of Hawkwood by Robin Grey
- (2017) Let’s Lock Ourselves Here For A While
- (2017) The Ballad Of The Green Backyard
- (2019) Sing ORFC
- Traditional Ballad index at California State University
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