Joe, you left out the next-to-last verse:

I learned of violence done
By my mother's brother's son
Was it hate or hurt
That held the hand to knife
It was trouble in the mind
Yes that's the only kind
That would make my cousin
Try to take his father's life

I heard this song on my sister's Broadsides Ballads album when
I was teen or preteen & thought he was singing "mine" which
made perfect sense to me, but printed lyrics say "mind".


To hear it get the Broadsides Ballads version, which isn't one
of the songs on that album you can get to play on Spotify.

You can play a much weaker version on Spotify, with a choir on the
chorus, which it doesn't need.