Carry Me Away

This song is an old British ballad about murder, deceit, attempted suicide and revenge. Our version is loosely based on a recording made by John Lomax of some young girls in the Gant family from Austin, Texas, especially intriguing for its mention of same-sex attraction in the first verse. Usually this song contains a detail about sucking marrow out of bones to make the old man blind. We chose to leave that out and cut to the chase.