Talk:The Mermaid (ballad)

A fact from The Mermaid (ballad) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 16 August 2012 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that "The Mermaid" is a sea ballad, not a sea shanty?

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Size[edit]

Prose size (text only): 162 B (31 words) "readable prose size" --Guerillero | My Talk 01:30, 8 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Prose size (text only): 1211 B (231 words) "readable prose size" --Guerillero | My Talk 02:37, 8 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

American?[edit]

The Mermaid is from the Child ballads. That suggests British origin. Yet the article refers to America only. Isn't that misleading?Royalcourtier (talk) 00:35, 17 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]