"Lord Randall", or "Lord Randal" is an Anglo-Scottish border ballad consisting of dialogue between a young Lord and his mother. Similar ballads can be found across Europe in many languages, including Danish, German, Magyar, Irish, Swedish, and Wendish. Italian variants are usually titled "L'avvelenato" ("The Poisoned Man") or "Il testamento dell'avvelenato" ("The Poisoned Man's Will"), the earliest known version being a 1629 setting by Camillo il Bianchino, in Verona. This ballad, along with "Edward" and "Barbara Allen" usually comprise the English Traditional Ballad section of most English literature anthologies. Following the example of Francis Child, they were presented with lyrics only. We had to discover the collections of Cecil Sharp and Bertrand Bronson to find the relevant melodies. The nursery rhyme and song "Billy Boy" borrows the verse structure and the narrative format about a suitor visiting his lover, with a happier ending. Bob Dylan used a similar structure for "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall". It appears in F. J. Child's English and Scottish Popular Ballads (#12) and in the Roud Index of Folk Songs (#10). It was recorded by Burl Ives, Buffy Saint Marie, Martin Carthy, Steeleye Span and others.