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Banks of the Ohio
Banks of the Ohio is a nineteenth century murder ballad, in which Willie invites his young lover for a walk, murdering her, once they are alone on the deserted river bank, after she rejects his marriage proposal. The song has been recorded countless times, including versions by Johnny Cash, The Carter Family, the Blue Sky Boys (whose version, performed in 1936, appears in the soundtrack of the 1973 film Paper Moon), the Monroe Brothers, Joan Baez, Olivia Newton-John (in 1971, her second commercial single in the United States), and Doc Watson, with slightly different lyrics when sung by a female vocalist.
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