"The Unquiet Grave" is notable for its theme of the universal popular belief that excessive grief on the part of mourners disturbs the peace of the dead. Another example of this is "Lady Gay", also known as "The Wife of Usher's Well". Most of the verses of "The Unquiet Grave" can be found in other ballads and folk lyrics, suggesting the possibility that it is only a fragment of a longer ballad still undiscovered. One of the more common tunes used for the ballad is "Kingsfold", the same as that used for the English ballad "Dives and Lazarus" and the Irish pub favorite "Star of the County Down" (in 4/4 time). It is included in Francis J. Child's English and Scottish Popular Ballads as #78. It was also collected by Cecil Sharp. It is not known in America. Composer Ralph Vaughan Williams wrote several arrangements for "How Cold the Wind doth Blow (or The Unquiet Grave)". The best known, from 1912, is for piano, violin and voice. It was printed in "British Ballads and Folk Songs from the Joan Baez Songbook" and The Joan Baez Songbook. It has been recorded by Joan Baez, Frankie Armstrong, Ian Campbell, the Patons, Steeleye Span and others.