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Olive W. Burt, American Murder Ballads and their Stories, Oxford University Press, New York, 1958 Olive W. Burt, "Murder Ballads of Mormondom" , Western Folklore , 18:2 , April 1959, pp. 141–156
Pages in category "Songs about crime" The following 90 pages are in this category, out of 90 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9. 18 and Life;
American Murder Song (sometimes abbreviated AMS) is an American musical act founded in 2016 by cult film composers and performers Terrance Zdunich and Saar Hendelman. The project uses the murder ballad genre to explore American history , especially 19th-century America.
McKinnon picks up her remote and immediately turns on Netflix, a hub for true-crime shows, including last month's "Night Stalker." “I’m gonna watch a murder show,” the women sing together.
Tom Lehrer's song, "The Irish Ballad", is a parody of the traditional murder ballad. J.H.P. Pafford, in a review of Olive Burt's American Murder Ballads and their Stories, states that the song contains "a running prose commentary on the incidents described in many [such] ballads". [7]
"Rain and Snow", also known as "Cold Rain and Snow" (Roud 3634), [1] is an American folksong and in some variants a murder ballad. [2] The song first appeared in print in Olive Dame Campbell and Cecil Sharp's 1917 compilation English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians, which relates that it was collected from Mrs. Tom Rice in Big Laurel ...
"Duncan and Brady" is a typical "bad man" murder ballad, such as "Frankie and Johnny" or "Stagger Lee". [2] The song begins with Brady, a policeman, riding around in an electric car, with a "mean look in his eye", looking to "shoot somebody just to see him die". [1] He walks into a bar, which Duncan is tending, and arrests him. [1]
"The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll" is a topical song written by the American musician Bob Dylan. Recorded on October 23, 1963, the song was released on Dylan's 1964 album The Times They Are a-Changin' and gives a generally factual account of the killing of a 51-year-old African-American barmaid, Hattie Carroll (née Curtis; March 3, 1911 – February 9, 1963), [1] by then 24-year-old ...