This is the fifth in a series of blogs about the songs on our new CD “The Wandering Ballad”. With Fair Annie we return to the story of the poor Anna/Annie/La Freine. (See “Les Tristes Noces” and “Skön Anna”) This Child ballad describes the moment Annie’s longtime lover tells her he is going to marry someone else. Annie is after all only a simple girl, and though they have seven sons these sons are not legitimate since he never got around to marry her. Now, since he is after a