there are songs where the beauty of the woman is described by the beauty of the melody, a kind of Empsonian ambiguity - Just as the tide was flowing, Verdant Braes of Skreen

bawdy songs
victim songs
physical abuse songs
songs where the woman cheats or attempts to cheat the man
union songs
where the woman murders her children
where the woman is murdered

oh you've been to a folk club, you know them all!