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Matthew B.	Lyr Req: Ballad of Jane McWilliams - child murder (15)	RE: Ballad of JANE McWILLIAMS - child murder	27 Sep 99
By the way, I wonder if you realized that this was most often sung as a *lullaby!* (although it never showed up -- thank God -- in our "favorite lullabies" thread). I have heard many accounts of babies being sung to sleep by this and other songs just like it. Hey, even to this day we have the gruesome Rockabye Baby, but none of our modern stuff comes close to the scare-your-baby-to-sleep genre that was so popular in the 18th & 19th centuries.

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