Comments on: Songs about women murdering men

By: everysongsaboutagirl.com

everysongsaboutagirl.com — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:09:09 +0000

Very interesting article

By: tracer123t

tracer123t — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 12:00:09 +0000

Love the list. I have a couple additions. Tanya Tucker did a song in 1974 called No Man’s Land. In the end, the woman murders the man who raped her. You can get the tune on I-tunes. Well worth the 99 cents. The Night The Lights Went Out in Georgia reminded me of another song. This one is a murder of a man and woman committed by a woman. Cher’s Dark Lady.

By: Lana

Lana — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 16:20:24 +0000

Lorna, thank you for ANYTHING you can do to help desperate and hurting women know there is a better alternative than murder (even if it may be “justified”): CASA and other such groups. And thank you for ANYTHING to help raise support for such organizations that are so strapped for funds.

By: Jenny Flory

Jenny Flory — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 23:43:23 +0000

I dug this post. Tim Walker sent me the link. Great topic.

myspace.com/jennyflory

you can hear the song.

Murder In The First Degree is one of my favorite songs to perform, it is a crowd favorite and it has to be because the message is one of empowerment for women.

I think its easy to identify with the desperation of the women in these songs. Thats why audiences enjoy them.

They can feel her power… And in a world where women are being degraded and abused, this power is important. It’s a symbol. Of hope, I think. For equality.

(The funny thing is… When men hear this song most of them just think Im crazy) go figure.

xoxo

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:09:58 +0000

“Murder In The First Degree” by Jenny Flory.

By: Nicole

Nicole — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 21:37:24 +0000

Lorna, I think you should record another CD, covers of all the songs above. I can provide back up. We would sell millions of copies. Nicole and Lorna sing the hits.

By: Pat Walsh

Pat Walsh — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 20:31:22 +0000

Interesting post. When I first saw the title I immediately thought of Jim White’s ‘The Wound That Never Heals’:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFskdl_gTE4

This is quite an atmospheric & cinematic song and its main protagonist seems to be a female serial killer. It’s even humorous, in a darkly comic way

By: Linda Osmundson

Linda Osmundson — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 19:39:18 +0000

Lorna
We write and sing about killing men because a lot of us have had that fantasy once in awhile. For battered women, sometimes we feel we must kill or be killed. Interestingly, since the domestic violence shelters opened in the mid to late 70’s, the percentage of women killing men has declined precipitously, presumably because the shelters and domestic violence centers offered them another better alternative. While we may believe that women killing violent men is just, the courts rarely rule in favor of these women. There are thousands of women languishing in US prisons with life sentences for defending their own lives. That is why, in FL CASA and other programs worked to help women get clemency and out of prison who killed their abusers. To date we have managed to free over 30 FL women.

By: Lbracewell

Lbracewell — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 19:15:37 +0000

Dad, it makes me nervous how into this post you’ve gotten. Take a step back. :)

By: mike bracerwell

mike bracerwell — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:53:27 +0000

How about the Ballad of Lizzie Borden. Lizzie Borden took an axe and gave her mother 40 wacks. When she saw what she had done she gave her father 41.
“Oh Lizzie she kept busy that sunny afternoon both up and downstairs choppin as she sung an old time tune.”