"For a ballad's a thing you expect to find lies in."
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Paddy Blake's Echo; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 56.
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Samuel Lover
Samuel Lover (February 24, 1797 – July 6, 1868) was an Irish songwriter, composer,
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