the ballad

The ballad is the story of something or someone told in the form of a song (musical story)

A ballad is a narrative poem, usually set to music; thus, it often is a story told in a song.

The kind of singing mostly used by Europeans during the Eurovision Song Contest to annoy the audience.

A wide variety of African American verbal games involving ritual insult, competition, innuendo, parody, and other forms of loaded expression.

an album or other compilation of overly sentimental or romantic songs.

An emotional hard rock/heavy metal song, often with a slow tempo, dramatic sung vocals, and many instruments, including acoustic ones and synthesizers. Power ballads usually start soft, then heaviness builds up with drums and heavy electric guitars.

Written by Joss Whedon and performed by Sonny Rhodes, it is also known as the Theme to Firefly. Firefly was a woefully short-lived series on the Fox television station. It was a sci-fi western and the opening theme conveyed the main hero and protagonist of the show; a hardened war veteran named Malcolm "Mal" Reynolds. The song has been covered by a band called The Henry Kaiser Band and can be heard in the closing title music of Firefly's movie adaption, Serenity. The theme is also used as the chorus to filk band Escape Key in their Firefly tribute entitled Mal's Song.