What are your Top 5 Murder Ballads?

I'll kick it off with my Top 5

1. Delia's Gone - Johnny Cash
2. Carolina Drama - The Raconteurs
3. Where The Wild Roses Grow - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
4. Ballad Of A Young Married Man - The Wildes
5. Excitable Boy - Warren Zevon

Tags: Ballads, List, Murder

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Permalink Reply by David Shaw on September 4, 2009 at 8:41am
Pretty Polly ... The Byrds
Miss Otis Regrets ... various versions
Hangin' Me Tonight ... Gurf Morlix
Sonora's Death Row ... Tom Russell / Dave Alvin
Everything's Turning to White ... Paul Kelly / Kasey Chambers
Permalink Reply by Truersound on September 4, 2009 at 10:03am
Knoxville Girl
Pretty Polly
Little Sadie
Caleb Meyer
Delia's Gone
Permalink Reply by Tears of the Moosechaser on January 13, 2011 at 11:18am

Top five murder ballads: 

 

1. Dog of Sadness

2. Cardsharps

3. My true Body - Angels of Light (its a stretch for ballad and murder but its dark enough)

4. Album by Nick cave

5.(Pardon Me) I've Got Someone To Kill - Johnny Paycheck

 

 

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