Do you know any other murder songs?

[Jean Pierre]

Do you know any other murder songs? (It could be a theme for a festival..original or/and cover )

...When I did an instrumental cover with the Dobro  of "Banks of Ohio "
https://songcrafters.org/forum/index.php?topic=31010.0

I didn't know it was a murder ballad
...And many like me were surprised that such a beautiful music is a murder song

Searching a bit on YT I found this other murder song "Long Black Veil" sung by ...Mick Jagger (yes, yes) and the Chieftains, amazing no?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F-4rY4g4Do

[Greeny]

Try 'Long Black Veil' by The Band! :-)

[Pete C]

This is one . Nick Cave and Kylie Minogue. Hayley and I did a version in 2019


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDpnjE1LUvE

[64Guitars]

Searching a bit on YT I found this other murder song "Long Black Veil" sung by ...Mick Jagger (yes, yes) and the Chieftains, amazing no?

I prefer this version by The Band and the original by Lefty Frizzell. Also covered by our own Bluesberry for the Woodstock Fest in 2009.

Do you know any other murder songs? (It could be a theme for a festival..original or/and cover )

• "Tom Dooley" (1958) by The Kingston Trio
• "Stagger Lee" (1958) by Lloyd Price
• "El Paso" (1959) by Marty Robbins
• "Streets of Laredo" (1960) by Marty Robbins
• "Miss Otis Regrets" (1934) by Douglas Byng in "Hi Diddle Diddle"
• "Hey Joe" (1966) by Jimi Hendrix
• "John Barleycorn (Must Die)" (1970) by Traffic
• "Delia's Gone" (1994) by Johnny Cash (and covered by our own A Belmont King)
• "Don't Take Your Guns to Town" (1958) by Johnny Cash
• "The Knoxville Girl" (1956) by The Louvin Brothers
• "Poor Ellen Smith" (1962) by The Kingston Trio
• "John Hardy" (1964) by Manfred Mann
• "Omie Wise" (1964) by Doc Watson

[Jean Pierre]

ouch! belle liste 64 guitar...de quoi faire un beau cover festival on this theme

[dasilvasings]

Hmmm what about a murder fest where you get extra points if it involves the word "mother-in-law"?

[Oldrottenhead]

This is one . Nick Cave and Kylie Minogue. Hayley and I did a version in 2019


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDpnjE1LUvE

the album that song is from is called "Murder Ballads" all murder songs. Stagger Lee is a fab song from it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_Ballads

[Bluesberry]

Via Chicago - Wilco


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7lgner6IO0

[WarpCanada]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pK1cwjGw74s

[Ferryman]

Don't know any murder ballads, but this is a pretty good suicide ballad, based on an old English folk legend (Kitty Jay of Dartmoor) by a superb British band (Wishbone Ash):


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFMn19ntxGc