Hedy West - Little Sadie

"Murder ballads"  --  a big thing in American Folk Music.  So, all you folks who look back to a "simpler time", a "better time", listen a bit to lyrics.  Think a bit of what they say.  Killing, drug use, all sorts of nasty stuff.  By the way, most done by good old "god-fearing" WHITE folks.

Golly-gee, how can that be?

Oh well, I guess human nature is just that, human nature  --  perhaps things really are a lot better these days.