Mantid wrote: 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.
Child ballad 10 .Twa Sisters .
http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/child/ch010.htm
With huge number of variants with different names ,Minnorie , Cruel Sister , Bows o ' London etc .
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