Ah yes, many versions of Stagger Lee out there. "I Truly Understand" is another great ballad. I heard recently a Celtic version of what I would call "Oh the Wind and Rain" (about a jealous girl pushing her sister into a river to drown, a musician finds the corpse and makes an instrument out of the bones)... but in this version the classic refrain never came, and it was a harp instead of a fiddle. Unmistakably the same DNA though.
I wasn't looking for anything in particular I suppose, I just enjoy these things, especially when it goes beyond being a cover and spans 2 songs, as Cope did with I Have Always Been Here Before and Spacemen 3 did with We Sell Soul.
So looking for other examples... but also just making conversation. I get really amped up about music at times and it drives my family/friends mad, so figured where, if not here, to talk about it?
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