Ballads and Ditties

Ballads

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Ditties and ballads are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Ditties" instead a noun "Ballads".

Ditties

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Ballads and ditties are semantically related. You can use "Ballads" instead a noun "Ditties".

Both words in one sentence

  • Music / They Might Be Giants At least a quarter of the songs on any given album will some sort of lyrical dissonance, be it power-pop murder ballads or uptempo break-up waltzes, or piano ditties about death by guillotine.
  • Lehrer did this intentionally, as he felt it was almost stereotypical for traditional Irish ballads to be cheerful little ditties with ample amounts of nonsense lyrics ("rickety-tickety-tin") despite being about such pleasant topics as murder, suicide, and death in general.
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