Question: Effie Crockett is credited with creating the song that was based on what English ballad?
Sentence (from "No Man's Land (Eric Bogle song)"): Its melody, its refrain ("did they beat the drum slowly, did they play the fife lowly"), and elements of its subject matter (a young man cut down in his prime) are similar to those of "Streets of Laredo", a North American cowboy ballad whose origins can be traced back to an 18th-century English ballad called "The Unfortunate Rake" and the Irish Ballad "Lock Hospital".
Relevant evidence: No