Historically, some of the most avid consumers of ballad content have been worms...
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This sheet contains contains two ballads: the minstrel song Nelly Bly sits incongruously with the stirring patriotic song The Colours the Ladies Should Wear:
"What girl would not love the lads fighting
Under the "red, white and blue."