...hear the first words of any ballad, The King sat in Dunfermline town Drinking the blood red wine -or There lived a wife at Usher's well And a wealthy wife was she to be transported into that other state, as by the words "once upon a time" into fairyland. And indeed...

...Islington,' 'Lord Randall,' 'The Wife of Usher's Well' are but a few of them." She began to sing softy. There lived a wife at Usher's Well And a wealthy wife...She had three stout and stalwart sons, And sent them o 're the sea. They hadn't been a week from her, A week but barely ane. When word came to the earline...