This is an old American folk song or ballad, first transcribed around 1911, taught to the gentleman in North Carolina by a woman who said it referred to a murder that happened when she was a child. She was fifty at the time she was teaching him the song, so that would put the original back in the 1860s. So this song is at least 150 years old. Apparently the Grateful Dead used to play a live version.
I'm quick becoming a Molly Tuttle fan. She can sing the shit out of a song and at the same time pick the guitar just like ringing a bell. This is a performance from just weeks ago in Dallas.
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