Sara Grey has the story of a family sharing their version of Matty Groves -- possibly on a porch! -- in which the wronged husband shoots Matty with a six-gun after challenging him. During the subsequent discussion about who was right and who was wrong, the teenage son burst out with words to the effect that, if he had been Matty, he'd have been straight out the back door the minute he heard the first challenge…

(In which case, we might never have had a great ballad!)