Murder Ballad - List of Murder Ballads

List of Murder Ballads

• "Banks of the Ohio" - Joan Baez, Blue Sky Boys, The Carter Family, Monroe Brothers, Johnny Cash, Doc Watson
• "The Bramble Briar"
• "Charles Guiteau"
• "Child Owlet" - Steeleye Span
• "The Cruel Mother," also known as "Carlisle Hall" and "Fine Flowers in the Valley" - Joan Baez, Richard Dyer-Bennet
• "The Death of Parcy Reed"
• "Down in the Willow Garden," also known as "Rose Connelly" - G. B. Grayson and Henry Whitter, Wade Mainer, Charlie Monroe, Everly Brothers, Art Garfunkel, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
• "Duncan and Brady" - Dave Van Ronk
• "Edward" - Steeleye Span
• "Eggs and Marrowbone" - Richard Dyer-Bennet
• "The Famous Flower of Serving-Men"
• "Frankie and Johnny," also known as "Frankie and Albert" - Mississippi John Hurt, Brook Benton, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash
• "I Hung My Head" - Sting, Johnny Cash
• "In the Pines," also known as "Black Girl" and "Where Did You Sleep Last Night" - Leadbelly, Bill Monroe, Nirvana
• "Jellon Grame" - Broadside Electric
• "The Knoxville Girl" - Blue Sky Boys, Louvin Brothers, Wilburn Brothers, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
• "Lamkin" - Martin Carthy, Steeleye Span, Fire + Ice
• "Lily of the West" - Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, The Chieftains
• "Little Sadie," also known as "Cocaine Blues" - Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Hank Thompson, Uncle Tupelo, Merle Travis, Woody Guthrie, Tony Rice
• "Lizie Wan"
• "Lord Randall" - Josh White, Harry Belafonte
• "The Maid and the Palmer," also known as "The Well Below The Valley"
• "Mary Hamilton" - Joan Baez
• "Omie Wise," also known as "Poor Little Omie Wise" - Clarence Ashley, Dock Boggs, Roscoe Holcomb, Shirley Collins, Pentangle, Doc Watson
• "Poor Ellen Smith" - Molly O'Day, Wilma Lee & Stoney Cooper, Stanley Brothers, Country Gentlemen
• "Pretty Polly" - Dock Boggs, Judy Collins, Ralph Stanley, Kristin Hersh, Bert Jansch, Sandy Denny
• "Prince Robert"
• "The River Saile" - The Dubliners
• "Stagger Lee," also known as "Stagolee," "Stackerlee," "Stack O'Lee," "Stack-a-Lee" - Ma Rainey, Mississippi John Hurt, Sidney Bechet, Duke Ellington, Memphis Slim, Woody Guthrie, Fats Domino, Lloyd Price, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, the Grateful Dead
• "Tom Dooley" - Kingston Trio, Lonnie Donegan, Doc Watson
• "The Twa Sisters," also known as "Cruel Sister," "The Two Sisters," "Minnorie," and "Binnorie" - Pentangle, Clannad, Ewan MacColl, Red Clay Ramblers, The Unthanks, Tom Waits
• "Young Benjie"
• "Young Hunting," also known as "Henry Lee" and "Love Henry" in the United States and "Earl Richard" and sometimes "The Proud Girl" in the United Kingdom - Bob Dylan, Dick Justice, Tim Hart, A. L. Lloyd