PUBLISHED: Jan 04, 2016
DESCRIPTION:
One of the more appalling ballads in the tradition, Lucy's brother wipes his hands of his misdeeds and escapes clean away.
Tune and words from the singing of Lisa Null. Recorded in the chapel of St Edmund Hall, Oxford, on Jeffries duet concertina..
...And he has taken his good broadsword
That hung down to his knee
And he has cutted off Lucy Wan's head
And cleaved her poor body in three...