Blackcatter: The loss of all hands was the subject of Gordon Lightfoot's song, but the word "hands" is never used in the lyrics of "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald".

#! Peasant: Don't forget about "The Banks of the Ohio" and the many versions of the "Two Sisters" ballad theme, in all of which the murderer takes the victim by the hand and walks along the river, only to throw the victim into the water and drown her.

Crash Test Dummies have a song called "Give Yourself a Hand". I'll let you look up that one yourself without a link from me, since I'm feeling a bit prudish today. *blushing at the subject matter of the song*