Category
page 1Murder ballads
Stan
2000 single by Eminem ft. Dido
Where the Wild Roses Grow
1995 single by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and Kylie Minogue
Moonlight Shadow
1983 song by Mike Oldfield
Maxwell's Silver Hammer
original song written and composed by Lennon-McCartney; first recorded by The Beatles
Rocky Raccoon
original song written and composed by Lennon–McCartney; first recorded by The Beatles
Delilah
single by Tom Jones
Man Down
2011 single by Rihanna
Hey Joe
song written and composed by Billy Roberts
I Shot the Sheriff
Bob Marley & The Wailers song
The Hanging Tree
2014 song with lyrics by Suzanne Collins performed by James Newton Howard
I Don't Like Mondays
song written and composed by Bob Geldof and Johnnie Fingers; originally recorded by Boomtown Rats and released in 1979
Murder Ballads
album by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Tempest
2012 album by Bob Dylan
Brenda's Got a Baby
1991 by Tupac Shakur
No Body, No Crime
2021 single by Taylor Swift
Tom Dooley
North Carolina folk song
18 and Life
1989 single by Skid Row
Kill Bill
2023 single by SZA
Midnight Rambler
song with lyrics by Mick Jagger performed by The Rolling Stones
Janie's Got a Gun
single
Dark Lady
song written and composed by Johnny Durrill; originally recorded by Cher and released in 1974
Shankill Butchers
Northern Irish gang
John Barleycorn
folk song
Burden in My Hand
song by Soundgarden
Frankie and Johnny
folk song
murder ballad
ballad subgenre
The Twa Sisters
traditional song
Banks of the Ohio
American 19th century folk song
Murder Most Foul
2020 single by Bob Dylan
Kim
original song written and composed by Eminem, Jeff Bass, Mark Bass
The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll
song written, composed, and performed by Bob Dylan
Sippy Cup
2015 single by Melanie Martinez
Stagger Lee
traditional song
Ballad of Hollis Brown
song written, composed, and performed by Bob Dylan
Lord Randall
traditional song
Down by the River
original song written and composed by Neil Young
Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts
song by Bob Dylan
Cock Robin
English nursery rhyme
Only a Pawn in Their Game
original song written, composed, and performed by Bob Dylan
Streets of Laredo
American cowboy ballad
Matty Groves
traditional song
Church Bells
song by Carrie Underwood
Two Black Cadillacs
2012 single by Carrie Underwood
The Death of Emmett Till
song by Bob Dylan
Edward
traditional murder ballad
Sinclairvisan
"Sinclairvisan" or "Sinclairsvisan" ("The Sinclair Song") is a Swedish propaganda song with 90 verses, written by Anders Odel in 1739 to the "La Folia" melody. The song describes the murder of the Swedish diplomat, friherre, and major Malcolm Sinclair. Sinclair was murdered in 1739, while on a diplomatic mission, by two Russian officers acting on orders from the Russian government.
'97 Bonnie & Clyde
1998 song by Eminem
Gang Bang
2012 song by Madonna
Long Black Veil
original song written and composed by Danny Dill and Marijohn Wilkin; first performed in 1959 by Lefty Frizzell
Murder of the Lawson family
Act of Familicide occuring on December 25, 1929, in which sharecropper Charlie Lawson murdered his wife and six of his seven children
El Paso
1959 Marty Robbins country-western song
Don't Take Your Guns to Town
Johnny Cash song
Used to Love Her
song by Guns N' Roses
Kerosene
2005 single by Miranda Lambert
Lily of the West
traditional Irish folk song