balladeer vs lyrist

balladeer

noun
  • A singer, particularly a professional singer who performs ballads. 

verb
  • To sing a ballad 

lyrist

noun
  • lyricist 

  • A lyrical poet 

  • A person who plays the lyre. 

How often have the words balladeer and lyrist occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )