Dudley Randall's Ballad of Birmingham Dudley Randall's Ballad of Birmingham gives a poetic account of the bombing of a Birmingham church in 1963. The poem was written in ballad form to convey the mood of the mother to her daughter. The author also gives a graphic account of what the 1960's were like. Irony played a part also in the ballad showing the church as the warzone and the freedom march as the safer place to …showed first 75 words of 442 total…

…showed last 75 words of 442 total…any better by the Birmingham Post. The ballad's tone changed with every paragraph that seemed to capture the true feelings of the characters. The sixties were a time of turmoil and change, which the author captured with guns, jail, explosions, and freedom marches. The ironic turnabout of the church being the battleground and the march being the safest place to be also shows how the sixties played an important role of where we are today.