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13 Mar 14 - 12:17 AM (#3609291) Subject: Lyr Req: Norman Williams Homestead Murder ballad From: GUEST,Dalillama I was reading a book called Wildmen, Wobblies and Whistle Punks, a collection of historical anecdotes about the Northwest, which were written by a local reporter from the late 'teens to the mid sixties. One of them is about the Homestead Murders, a case that happened out in the backcountry of Oregon in 1904. He mentions that a ballad was composed about the murders, and quotes two verses: Oh, Williams built a fire/ And he throwed the bodies in/ He thought he'd covered up/ His bloody trail/ But he left a couple hairs/ A-buried in the ground/ And they hanged him at the/ Wasco County jail. Does anyone know the rest of the lyrics to this song, or indeed any other information about it at all? |