Friday night is songs with death in them night

[threebikesmcginty]

That's quite an interesting song. It started off as a broadside, a song printed on a page of paper. It was called Oxford Girl in England and Wexford Girl in Ireland before migrating to America. I think it may also have been called The Bloody Miller. In one version of the Oxford Girl, the singer was an apprentice to a miller. He persuade a girl to have sex with him, promising to marry her. Then he decided he was too young to marry, so he killed her. Charming.

In the early versions there's no retribution for his crime, that was only added in later when the Americans rewrote it. Savages ent we?

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Another by Jonny Cash, a fatal case of mistaken identity

The Long Black Veil


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9C9jt5bu0g

 

[Ash28]

Whiskey In The Jar Thin Lizzy

 

[mcshroom]

Stereophonics did a few different songs about suicides and deaths.

Billy Davey's Daughter is about a girl who threw herself off of a bridge to commit suicide, She takes her clothes off refers to a woman who hung herself at home and Local Boy in the Photograph is about a boy killed by being hit by a train.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

This schmalzy old tosh is always voted the best country song ever. The Possum's glorious come back in 1980, from his album 'I Am What I Am' - He stopped loving her today...stick with it, it's great!

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]View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1R2F9f2Cl6Y[/media]

 

[slowmotion]

I'm not sure if this counts, but I think it's quite good. "Black Peter" by the Grateful Dead.


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgcNw09lQ7A

 

[Salad Dodger]

"Caleb Meyer" by Gillian Welch and David Rawlings

 

[threebikesmcginty]

I'm not sure if this counts, but I think it's quite good. "Black Peter" by the Grateful Dead.

Nice choice SM - great album that one.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Something unusual from the Hollies

The Solders Song


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNPnNUfxRIk

 

[KEEF]

Needle of Death Bert Jansch

 

[Yellow Fang]

In the early versions there's no retribution for his crime, that was only added in later when the Americans rewrote it. Savages ent we?

I'm not sure about that. There's an interesting history of it here. Interestingly, there was a version called The Berkshire Tragedy, where the murder appeared to take place in Wytham, which was then near the border between Oxfordshire and Berkshire. (It was bloody Wilson who changed the county borders, wasn't it?)

I thought it was a bit odd that in The Knoxville Girl that they didn't hang him, but then The States outlawed capital punishment before bringing it back. In The Knoxville Girl there isn't a motive for the killing, or any mention of the them having slept together, or her being pregnant. Maybe that offended their religious sensibilities.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Hmmm, must be thinking of another song then...

 

[Smokin Joe]

This schmalzy old tosh is always voted the best country song ever. The Possum's glorious come back in 1980, from his album 'I Am What I Am' - He stopped loving her today...stick with it, it's great!

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]View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1R2F9f2Cl6Y[/media]

That song nearly tore me apart when I first heard it after I dumped someone who had a breakdown because of it.

Here's a modern classic, nobody does death like a C&W artist -


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jkx68VTJ33o

 

[Yellow Fang]

Bobbie Gentry Ode To Billie Joe

That was used in a film with Cissy Spacek, wasn't it?

 

[andrew-the-tortoise]

Alice In Chains | ROOSTER

[......must have a warped mind, found myself humming this when I heard Bernard Matthews had passed away]