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Thread #48348   Message #725516
Posted By: Mrrzy
07-Jun-02 - 04:20 PM
Thread Name: DTStudy Murder Ballads with bloody noses
Subject: RE: DTStudy Murder Ballads with bloody noses
Joe, I was afraid you'd ask that. It's not The Suffolk Miracle which is my favorite ghost ballad... I'll have to go back to the vinyl, which my Mom has, to answer that. I don't think it's The Miller or anything like that.

Incidentally, the cruelest miller I know of song is the one who "up with her fingers and off with her rings, then he threw her back in the brook again" in one version of the song where one sister kills the other. In this song under study, the miller isn't who is cruel, unless you count the apprenti miller's boy as the miller.