I used to sing "Marble Halls", which has a lovely, haunting, melody, but I was told by an old(er) singer that it's an "unlucky" song. He wouldn't (didn't) specify what was unlucky about it.   At the time I hadn't heard this superstition but strangely, shortly afterwards, mention of it was made in the Daily Mail. Various contributors to the column reported ill-luck coming to someone who had recently heard it sung. I stopped singing it "just in case" - silly??

I understand it was originally a music-hall song. Anyone any idea how it came to be thought of in this negative way?