The Lily of the West

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Frankie and Johnny

Historical details [as well as alternate lyrics] available here

In The Pines [or, The Longest Train]

"Why does a song like "In the Pines" endure and permutate so insistently? The answer may be that its essence is not a specific story or even a musical style but the kind of intensely dark emotion that, as is the case with much in American music, survives longer in popular memory than does treacly sentiment." - Eric Weisbard, NYT

The Lead Belly version is the most familiar one these days [since Kurt Cobain covered it, anyway]

But here is an older, creepier version

Little Sadie

Knoxville Girl