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TalkingBird	What murder ballad is the saddest? [songs] (162* d)	RE: What murder ballad is the saddest?	27 Aug 08
The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll by Bob Dylan. In addition to the sadness of the murder itself (a wealthy young white man, already drunk, beat a 50-year-old black waitress with his cane, for bringing his drink too slowly) there's also the sadness of the justice system which gave the killer 6 months in jail and a $500 fine. His defense was that he was drunk and didn't know what he was doing, and he was reported in a newspaper account at the time to have gloated about the lightness of the sentence.

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