Not actually a folk song, but Nick Cave's "Where the Wild Roses Grow" is pretty creepy, from the Murder Ballads album (see also "Lovely Creature", "The Kindness of Strangers" etc). The line "then I leant down and planted a rose 'tween her teeth" always makes me wince.
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Date: 2020-03-15 09:27 am (UTC)