This was proposed as a possible song for this thread by Jack Campin elsewhere. Unsure if it strictly fits in here, but maybe it does? Anyway I decided to add it along with another traditional song about a woman wreaking her own form of vengeance on an abusive husband. Neither are possibly very PC, but then arguably neither is infanticide or any number of the themes covered by this thread..

Blue Bleezing Blind Drunk

I'll go and I'll get blue bleezing blind drunk
Just to give Mickey a warning
And just for to spite I will stay out all night
And come rolling home drunk in the morning

Now friends, I have a sad story
A very sad story to tell
I married a man for his money
And he's worse than the devil himself

For when Mickey comes home in the evening
He batters me all black and blue
He knocks me about from the kitchen
From the bedroom right through to the room

For of whiskey I ne'er was a lover
But what can a poor woman do
I'll go and I'll drown all my sorrows
But I wish I could drown Mickey too

Recorded by Sheila Stewart (Stewarts of Blair)
SOF

Blue Bleezing Blind Drunk

Including a link to the Winterset's rendition above. Personally I found the first half of this almost unendurable and as someone who quite frankly knows how it is to be both physically assaulted and get properly drunk too, I found the delivery impossible to believe. The second half clearly represents a shift in character however, though I find it too jaunty to describe anyone I know that's been genuinely knocked about. Anyway, it's possibly a tricky song to deal with, as has been mentioned elsewhere - but this is the only version on YouTube so I don't know how others have dealt with it.