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** In yet another version (one with a particularly upbeat and sunny tempo), the elder sister's punishment for drowning her sibling is being boiled in lead. So much fun to sing with one's actual sisters! |
** In yet another version (one with a particularly upbeat and sunny tempo), the elder sister's punishment for drowning her sibling is being boiled in lead. So much fun to sing with one's actual sisters! |
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* Ballads in general are full of this sort of thing. Perhaps the most horrifying of the lot is "Long Lankin" (Child #93), in which an itinerant serial killer murders a lord's baby (spectacularly averting [[Infant Immortality]] in the process) and then his wife: |
* Ballads in general are full of this sort of thing. Perhaps the most horrifying of the lot is "Long Lankin" (Child #93), in which an itinerant serial killer murders a lord's baby (spectacularly averting [[Infant Immortality]] in the process) and then his wife: |
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{{quote|"We will pinch him, we will prick him, |
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we will stab him with a pin, |
we will stab him with a pin, |
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And the nurse shall hold the basin |
And the nurse shall hold the basin |
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for the blood all to run in." |
for the blood all to run in." |
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So they pinched him and they pricked him, |
So they pinched him and they pricked him, |
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then they stabbed him with a pin, |
then they stabbed him with a pin, |
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And the false nurse held the basin |
And the false nurse held the basin |
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for the blood all to run in. }} |
for the blood all to run in. }} |
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** Followed by Long Lankin being hanged and the nurse being burned on a pyre at the end of the song. |
** Followed by Long Lankin being hanged and the nurse being burned on a pyre at the end of the song. |