Tom Dooley had it coming.

In article <vccfkf$3ki1t$1@dont-email.me>,
Bobbie Sellers  <blissInSanFrancisco@mouse-potato.com> wrote:

Oh and I nearly left out Folk Music but it is full of bad
choices that some other possibly fictional character made. "Bow
down your head, Tom Duley, poor boy about to die", just off
top of my head.

That song always bugged me. The song seems to be asking us to
feel sorry for Tom "Yah, I knifed the b****.  And I'd have got
away with it, too, if it weren't for that SOB Grayson." Dooley.

Nope.  Tom Dooley is a definite "Needs Killin'" character.
After, of course, a fair trial, guilty verdict, and a long
trip at the end of a short rope.

(I gather the song's based on a real case, and the real Tom
Duley may have been innocent.  The one in the song, however,
admits and brags about his guilt.  Not too different, perhaps,
from the Lizzie "40 whacks" Borden case; the real Elizabeth
Borden was almost certainly innocent. And was acquitted in
court, but not in popular song.)

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