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Thread #131279   Message #2960005
Posted By: GUEST,Mike Yates
07-Aug-10 - 07:30 AM
Thread Name: Folklore: ISO fact-based murder ballad w/a river
Subject: RE: Folklore: ISO fact-based murder ballad w/a river
This is probably the song that Mary Ann Haynes called "Wexford Town". Others call it "The Wexford Girl". Harry Cox, for one, sang a version of it. In America it became "The Knoxville Girl", as recorded by, I think, the Blue Sky Boys among others.