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Title: Do you know any other murder songs?
Post by: Jean Pierre on April 15, 2021, 09:14:11 AM
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
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Post by: Greeny (No longer active) on April 15, 2021, 12:11:31 PM
Try 'Long Black Veil' by The Band! :-)
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Post by: Pete C on April 15, 2021, 12:46:54 PM
This is one . Nick Cave and Kylie Minogue. Hayley and I did a version in 2019


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDpnjE1LUvE
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Post by: 64Guitars on April 15, 2021, 12:51:02 PM
Quote from: my idol is Jahia on April 15, 2021, 09:14:11 AMSearching 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 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMwPd27sg_k) and the original by Lefty Frizzell (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BuqUfsqk5k). Also covered by our own Bluesberry (https://songcrafters.org/forum/index.php?topic=3714.0) for the Woodstock Fest in 2009.

Quote from: my idol is Jahia on April 15, 2021, 09:14:11 AMDo you know any other murder songs? (It could be a theme for a festival..original or/and cover )


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Post by: Jean Pierre on April 15, 2021, 01:02:08 PM
ouch! belle liste 64 guitar...de quoi faire un beau cover festival on this theme
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Post by: dasilvasings on April 15, 2021, 03:19:50 PM
Hmmm what about a murder fest where you get extra points if it involves the word "mother-in-law"?
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Post by: Oldrottenhead on April 15, 2021, 04:17:31 PM
Quote from: Pete C on April 15, 2021, 12:46:54 PMThis 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
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Post by: Bluesberry on April 15, 2021, 07:45:47 PM
Via Chicago - Wilco


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7lgner6IO0
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Post by: WarpCanada on April 15, 2021, 10:22:03 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pK1cwjGw74s
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Post by: Ferryman_1957 on April 17, 2021, 07:15:05 AM
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

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Post by: Ferryman_1957 on April 17, 2021, 07:24:11 AM
I forgot that I actually wrote a murder song and did it as a collaboration with Tommy Satchwood on here!

Here's the lyrics, it's a tale of obsession, passion, murder and madness:

The devil's in the cornfield
Clutching at our hearts
Standing in the shadows
Watching as we pass

Angels and demons dance in your eyes
One night of love for a life full of lies
Obsession is a passion that's becoming our drug
As we rip out the pumping heart of love

We're going Hellbound
Hellbound
We're going Hellbound
Hellbound

Pleasure turns to pain
As despair fills the night
Blood stains the ground
The darkness is alight

Angels and demons dance in my brain
Madness consumes me in its flames
Whispered imaginings that tear me apart
Are just the sounds of my tell-tale heart

We're going Hellbound
Hellbound
We're going Hellbound
Hellbound
You're dragging me down

You can hear it here: https://songcrafters.org/forum/index.php?topic=8132.msg107477#msg107477 (https://songcrafters.org/forum/index.php?topic=8132.msg107477#msg107477)
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Post by: Mike_S on April 17, 2021, 03:24:45 PM
Quote from: Ferryman on April 17, 2021, 07:24:11 AMI forgot that I actually wrote a murder song and did it as a collaboration with Tommy Satchwood on here!

Here's the lyrics, it's a tale of obsession, passion, murder and madness:

The devil's in the cornfield
Clutching at our hearts
Standing in the shadows
Watching as we pass

Angels and demons dance in your eyes
One night of love for a life full of lies
Obsession is a passion that's becoming our drug
As we rip out the pumping heart of love

We're going Hellbound
Hellbound
We're going Hellbound
Hellbound

Pleasure turns to pain
As despair fills the night
Blood stains the ground
The darkness is alight

Angels and demons dance in my brain
Madness consumes me in its flames
Whispered imaginings that tear me apart
Are just the sounds of my tell-tale heart

We're going Hellbound
Hellbound
We're going Hellbound
Hellbound
You're dragging me down

You can hear it here: https://songcrafters.org/forum/index.php?topic=4893.msg60370#msg60370 (https://songcrafters.org/forum/index.php?topic=4893.msg60370#msg60370)

Great tune Nigel, blimey that is going back a bit, 2009. I wasn't even born in songcrafterland back then!
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Post by: Mike_S on April 17, 2021, 03:30:23 PM
Have to add "Whiskey in the Jar" by Thin Lizzy to this list!

I had to double check did the protagonist actually kill someone in the lyrics and indeed he did :)

"Being drunk and weary, I went to Molly's chamber
Takin' my Molly with me and I never knew the danger
For about six or maybe seven in walked Captain Farrell
I jumped up, fired off my pistols, and I shot him with both barrels"
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Post by: dasilvasings on April 17, 2021, 04:47:22 PM
Second thinking, most Death Metal applies to either this category, or anatomy classes. Or both.
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Post by: alfstone on April 18, 2021, 04:24:51 AM
In Ireland Arthur McBride...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBGkhPx529g

In Italy the most famous is La canzone di Marinella, by the great Fabrizio De Andrè...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjNQW2mHSIs

Alfredo
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Post by: Jean Pierre on April 18, 2021, 05:03:56 AM
magnifique Alfredo..j'aimerais avoir le texte de la chanson ( la canzone di marinella)...
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Post by: alfstone on April 18, 2021, 10:44:22 AM
Quote from: my idol is Jahia on April 18, 2021, 05:03:56 AMmagnifique Alfredo..j'aimerais avoir le texte de la chanson ( la canzone di marinella)...

Here you go, JP...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6p6GvrcCMos
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Post by: Jean Pierre on April 18, 2021, 11:10:55 AM
Thank you Alfredo for this little personal answer

This song is beautiful and I like as much the French version as the Italian version

I think I will do a cover of this song (French version), if you want to do it with me for the orchestration it would be a pleasure mio amico
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Post by: alfstone on April 18, 2021, 12:55:05 PM
Quote from: my idol is Jahia on April 18, 2021, 11:10:55 AMThank you Alfredo for this little personal answer

This song is beautiful and I like as much the French version as the Italian version

I think I will do a cover of this song (French version), if you want to do it with me for the orchestration it would be a pleasure mio amico

Great! OK! More in the next days!  :)
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