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Murder Ballads

"They ask me if I feel remorse and I answer, “Why of course! There is so much more I could have done if they’d let me!”" -Nick Cave (The Curse of Millhaven) ---- Underwood, Richard H., and Carol J. Parris. "Crimesong: Some murder ballads and poems revisited." JS Legal Hist. 12 (2004): 5. [ "Although many of the early British ballads were probably of historical origin (e.g., Mary Hamilton), many others probably were not. At least some ended up in North America little changed.' Still, there are some American originals based on identifiable and well documented court cases (e.g., Omie Wise,' Tom Dooley, and Pearl Bryan)." ] Kane, Stuart A. "Wives with knives: early modern murder ballads and the transgressive commodity." Criticism 38.2 (1996): 219-237. [ "On June 29th, 1628, Alice Davies of Westminister was arrested for the murder of her husband Henry, a locksmith in Tuttle Street. According to the Middlesex Sessions Rolls, Alice stabbed Henry with a kitchen knife in a dispute over a shilling; she was arraigned and tried on July 9," ] Newman, Daniel. "Murder ballads: Nick Cave and his approach to killing in song." Musicology Australia 39.2 (2017): 96-115. [ "Violence and murder have a s

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