Murdered by a Brother [Laws F12]

DESCRIPTION: A brother takes his sister sailing. He denounces her adulterous liaison and announces that he will be avenged. He has already drowned her lover; now he drowns her and sails back alone
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1939 (Flanders/Ballard/Brown/Barry-NewGreenMountainSongster)
KEYWORDS: homicide adultery sea
FOUND IN: US(NE)
REFERENCES (3 citations):
Laws F12, "Murdered by a Brother"
Flanders/Ballard/Brown/Barry-NewGreenMountainSongster, pp. 92-94, "Murdered by a Brother" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT 758, MURDBRO
Roud #1932
File: LF12

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