"Frankie and Johnny" (sometimes spelled "Frankie and Johnnie"; also known as "Frankie and Albert", "Frankie's Man", "Johnny", or just "Frankie") is a #murderBallad, a traditional #AmericanPopularSong. It tells the story of a woman, Frankie, who finds her man Johnny making love to another woman and shoots him dead. Frankie is then arrested; in some versions of the song she is also executed.
https://youtu.be/kNq532Cyhu0

The true story of the girl in Johnny Cash's song Delia

"Delia wasn’t lowdown or trifling, and she was certainly not cold. Her death came not at the hands of a jealous lover but by a gunshot from a boy who thought she was mean to him."

https://majusculelit.com/delias-gone/?curator=MusicREDEF

#Delia #JohnnyCash #MurderBallad

my first ever scifi murder ballad. #murderballad #scifi #FAWM https://on.soundcloud.com/dNvNP7QoPSyFLJyb7

Good day as any for a #murderballad #caturday #music #Nickcave #PJHarvey #aft

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzmMB8dTwGs

I wonder if classical scholars crosspollinate their reading with scholarship about American ballads from Dixie? There’s a wonderful little essay by #EricMcHenry on the origins of #Mississippi John Hurt’s #murderballad that goes through fragments and traditions to get to the story of Louis Collins, subject of Hurt’s ballad with the refrain: “angels laid him away.”, The essay is here: https://theamericanscholar.org/the-bully-in-the-ballad/?fbclid=IwAR3JagR65EdXiy6_IF1lAj2DEfIkJdr0dG8BOtQGJIp6LKIBbGuPAT3pqyg

And, yeah, feeling a little #melancholy this late morning, with a dash of regret. Not a horrible thing, really, or unfamiliar, just something to sit with & through. And I'm still glad to be here, good day to be #sober, having a rich cup of #coffee (#CafeBustelo ftw), hanging out with my nephew, #cooking fantastic #greenchile #whitebean chicken soup, doing some #cleaning, watching a bit of #snowfall, etc. I'm not #DoomAndGloom, but I will gladly make time for a good #MurderBallad or something :-P

Surely the best ever Christmas song? Or at the very least the best #Christmas #Calypso #MurderBallad.

Seven Skeletons Found in the Yard by Lord Executor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Or09czap_Y

deep new #folk music scholarship by eric mchenry on the true identity/subject of "louis collins," the haunted #murderballad often attributed to #mississippijohnhurt, but probably not written by him, it now turns out. https://theamericanscholar.org/the-bully-in-the-ballad/ via @kramermj

I’ll love you for all time, Jackie love, Jackie love.
I’ll love you for all time, my Darling.
When the Summer comes, Jackie love, Jackie love.
Bury me by the willows, my Darling.

— Jackie and Rosalind

3/3

#poetry #murderBallad #lovesong #Halloween #horror #corvusrobotica