Ballads (4)
'ballads' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
This is the entire clue.
(Other definitions for lays that I've seen before include "Puts down; songs" , "Old narrative songs or poems" , "Minstrel's melodies" , "How Pertelote produces" , "Puts down - narrative poetry" .)
(Other definitions for odes that I've seen before include "Poems in praise" , "To a Skylark, To a Nightingale etc" , "verse" , "Lyrical poems" , "Poets write them" .)
'ballads' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
This is all the clue.
(Other definitions for songs that I've seen before include "Verse" , "Words with music" , "Vocal pieces" , "Ballads" , "Lieder, chansons etc" .)