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Come go along with me

I wrote a little something about murder ballads and fairy tales for The Shadowes Are Icumen In! You can read it here:

“Come Go Along With Me”: Murder Ballads, Fairy Tales, and the Danger of Following Men into the Woods

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"Poor Ellen Smith" Neko Case and the Pine Valley Cosmonauts

From Wikipedia:

The song is based on real events in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. In 1894, a ne'er-do-well named Peter DeGraff had a love affair with Ellen Smith, whom may have been mentally challenged and was unable to understand his rejection. Smith became pregnant by DeGraff, but their child died at birth. Afterwards she began following DeGraff around town, and eventually he sent her a note that asked her to meet him in a secluded area, worded in such a way that Smith would have believed DeGraff wanted to reconcile. Instead, when she arrived, DeGraff shot her through the chest. He later reported that Smith's only words after being shot were "Lord have mercy on me." DeGraff confessed to the crime on the gallows, shortly before he was hanged.

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Video: The Whileaways - Poor Ellen Smith

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If you just missed the Whileaways, the folk-alternative band from Galway, made up of Nicola Joyce, Noriana Kennedy and Noelle McDonnell, at Whelans in Dublin on Friday night, you can catch…

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