TOTALLY non-cycling related.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Hey!

Okay....what is a "murder ballad"???

A VERY short definition from Wikipedia:

Murder ballads are a notable portion of recorded medieval ballads from Scandinavia and Great Britain. In those, the victim overcomes the murderer, tricks him and stabs him to death while sleeping. Thus, justice is fulfilled, and the murderer is punished. Many of those ballads mention a row of dead brides, from seven and up to ten, until the final surviving heroine.

Often the details and locales for a particular murder ballad change as it is sung over time, reflecting the audience and the performer. For example, "Knoxville Girl" is essentially the same ballad as "The Wexford Girl" with the setting transposed from Ireland to Tennessee - the two of them are based on "The Oxford Girl", the original murder ballad set in England.

American murder ballads are often versions of older Old World ballads with any elements of supernatural retribution removed. For example, the English ballad "The Gosport Tragedy" of the 1750s had both murder and vengeance on the murderer by the ghosts of the murdered woman and her unborn baby, who call up a great storm to prevent his ship sailing before tearing him apart. In contrast, the Kentucky version, "Pretty Polly", is a stark murder ballad ending with the murder and burial of the victim in a shallow grave.

Here's just one example out of thousands, this one recorded in 1953:
http://www.lyon.edu/wolfcollection/s...blood1233.html
(I also sing this one)

[light_sabe_r]

Not much of a fashion nut but I am an Anime and Cartoon nut.

I love cartoons. Can't get enough of them. I was even serialised in 2004 for my own comic which I wrote and drew myself. (but then my other career took over)

I could easily spend days in front of the TV watching the entire series of Fruits Basket or Dragonball Z. Or sitting on our balcony reading graphic novels!

I've actually started drawing again recently- Trying to draw cartoon people on bikes.... :P My sketchbook's starting to fill again.

[TsPoet]

I was even serialised in 2004 for my own comic which I wrote and drew myself. (but then my other career took over)

You can't get away with not showing us a sample!

[OakLeaf]

Huh. I always thought of songs like "Banks of the Ohio" or "Cruel Mother" when I heard the term "murder ballad." Do those count? "Cruel Mother" at least includes the divine retribution. Or are those just ballads about murder, not murder ballads?

[light_sabe_r]

You can't get away with not showing us a sample!

Okay Poet - Just for you!

http://light-sabe-r.deviantart.com/a...-page-17780688

http://light-sabe-r.deviantart.com/a...Page13-7711769

and one of my Fave sketches.... A father meeting up with his delinquent son...

http://light-sabe-r.deviantart.com/a...wrong-16654048

[Tri Girl]

Amazing drawings, Light!!! Wow!

[TsPoet]

Amazing drawings, Light!!! Wow!

+1
I really like the bird. Those are terrific. I hope you have a chance to do more of it!