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    Quote Originally Posted by Dobes2TBK View Post
    Cruel Brother - robber comes upon three sisters, will you marry me or die by my pen knife? he kills the first two, third one says you wouldn' do that if my brothers were here - well longer story short - the robber's one of the brothers.
    My understanding was that a knight innocently came courting, looked over all three three sisters, picked the third one. She says he needs to get "consent frae a’ my kin" and he does, but he forgets to get permission from her brother. During the ceremony the brother kills his sister. While the motive is never discussed, but its far more depraved than robbery.
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    At work, so no time to re-read the whole thing, but Clay Hess's Rock Castle County is pretty chilling...the last line just seals it. As a dad of a daughter, gives me a shiver every time...

    Sorry if it's been mentioned before.
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    Claude Dallas by Ian Tyson and its a true story........Kevin
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIvGZphq77Y

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    Quote Originally Posted by drbluegrass View Post
    "Ballad Of A Teenage Queen" He was gonna' do it but she beat him to it.


    Tom

    Oops!! I meant "Carolyn The Teenage Queen"


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    Quote Originally Posted by robinson.sam8 View Post
    Katy Dear, AKA Silver Dagger - Worth mentioning several times.
    This one always leaves me confused. The two lovers are talking, "Ask your Mom, if she says Yes we'll get married, if she says no we'll run away." But the girl says it's no use asking 'cause they're sleeping and they have silver daggers by their beds. So instead of running away (seemed like a reasonable plan) they both kill themselves. I imagine the parents waking up and wondering what the heck happened? They never even said "No".

    Maybe of these songs mystify me...I think the context is lost over the years.

    Don't get me wrong, though, I think they're all great. My favorites are Two Sisters and Caleb Meyer.

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    "Mollie Bawn": Alison Krause does a really haunting version with The Chieftans on "Down The Old Plank Road".
    Yeah I love this....

    "Black & White" - CHerryholmes. One of murder and redemption.

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    I like The Steel Drivers version of " If It Hadn't Been For Love"

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-lOQgyU7JQ

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    Not Bluegrass in any way but an awesome murder ballad Ween: Buenos Tardes Amigo.

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    [QUOTE=Astro;1080115]I like The Steel Drivers version of " If It Hadn't Been For Love"

    That Steel Drivers singer sounds a ton like Dave Evans :

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcfg_NV0x-M

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    A couple of my favorites:

    The Well Below the Valley

    "There's one of them buried beneath the tree
    Another two buried beneath the stone

    Two of them outside the graveyard wall
    At the well below the valley-o"

    The Night Before Larry Was Stretched

    "...When he came to the nubbling chit,
    He was tucked up so neat and so pretty,
    The rumbler jogged off from his feet,
    And he died with his feet to the city;"

    Fretless

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    how interesting to see "nubbling chit" -- I read old (old) novels, and I've seen "nubbing cheat" used as British thieves cant for "hangman's noose." I wonder if the variation is an Americanism?
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    LOL - Charlie Sizemore

    http://youtu.be/WXb6GdT9gfY

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