Websites
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You can read a brief history of this ballad and its other variants at this site, and hear one of the tunes it's commonly sung to.
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Here you'll find sheet music for one version of "Lord Randall."
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Feeling inspired to take your own trip to the "wild wood"? Take a look at this image gallery of beautiful Scotland to get a feel for Lord Randall's setting…
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Here, you can see 14 other variants on "Lord Randall" collected by Francis J. Child in his famous compendium of ballads of the British Isles.
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If you liked "Lord Randall," you might also enjoy some of the other traditional ballads collected by Child – a lot of them are creepy and cool, and they're all pretty excellent stories.
Video
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Here's a particularly authentic-sounding, unaccompanied sung version of the ballad.
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Here's another traditional musical setting of "Lord Randall," with musical accompaniment.
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Here's a bluegrassy, Appalachian version of the song.
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Well, not completely. Okay, this is almost completely a non sequitur, but here's another song about betrayal, from another classic source – MTV's most amazing show ever, Daria.
Audio
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Here's another simple musical version, which offers a karaoke-style scrolling lyrics, and its own interpretation of the poem…
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Here's "Lord Randall," without all the musical mumbo-jumbo.
Images
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That redhead is clearly up to no good.
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Pre-lamprey poisoning, of course.