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List of Murder Ballads

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  • "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

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