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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!

* 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:

for the blood all to run in. }}

** Followed by Long Lankin being hanged and the nurse being burned on a pyre at the end of the song.