Friday night is songs with death in them night

[Rhythm Thief]

Half Man Half Biscuit's Tour Jacket With Detachable Sleeves. Great story song.

 

[MichaelM]

Bobbie Gentry Ode To Billie Joe

 

[Yellow Fang]

I picked a stick up off the ground
And knocked that fair girl down;

She fell down on her bended knees
For mercy she did cry
Oh, Willie dear, don't kill me here
I'm unprepared to die
She never spoke another word
I only beat her more
Until the ground around me
Within her blood did flow.

I took her by her golden curls
And I drug her 'round and 'round
Throwing her into the river
That flows through Knoxville town

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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.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

It's worth posting this just for the size of Jimmy Dean's glasses, like a couple of glass dustbin lids on his face.

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[slowmotion]

"River runs deep" by JJ Cale with Eric Clapton here....


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4LekkGu9n8

 

[Rhythm Thief]

Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - Papa Won't Leave You Henry.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

I've finished now


Sorry, that's a lie!

 

[zacklaws]

Jimi Hendrix:- Hey Joe

My link

Tom Jones:- Delilah

My link

Bob Marley:- I shot the Sheriff

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=nrnZSLwfzVs

The Sensational Alex Harvey Band:- Gambling Bar Room Blues

 

[Rhythm Thief]

Jim White - The Wound That Never Heals.

 

[MichaelM]

Joey - Bob Dylan

Can't find a link though.

 

[Yellow Fang]

There seem to be a few C&W and blue grass versions of Ballad of Duncan and Brady, but I much prefer the Leadbelly version. It's a pity you can't make out the words very well.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

A couple from Jonny Cash

The Streets Of Laredo


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


25 Minutes To Go


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

 

[accountantpete]

Way back to 1964 - credited to Albert DeSalvo (actually The Bugs and a TV newsreader who does the vocals)

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[Yellow Fang]

I think it was Terry Jack's cover of Seasons In The Sun I remember, but it was a translation of one of Jacque Brel's songs. I can't get into Jacque Brel though. However, the Beach Boy's version is pretty good IMHO, and Nirvana's is hiliarious.

 

[krushavik]

I thought someone would have mentioned Tom Jones and the Green grass of home by now.