![]() ![]() Mary Ann flies to her rescue and helps plot Earl's demise: death by poisoned black eyed peas. The lyrics and video leave little to the imagination: Wanda is beat up by her husband, Earl, just two weeks after their wedding. "Goodbye Earl" is a true murder ballad performed by women, for a change, that shocked the country airwaves in 2000. Perfect harmonies describing a vicious killing is sort of like china dolls: beautiful and creepy. But murder he does and with such description. Perhaps if our narrator had just popped the question, there would have been no murder. Unfortunately the word "femicide" was coined because of stories like these from the 19th century. ![]() This song is the best example of Appalachian roots on the early country scene. Now he's six feet under, his lover is forced to hide her grief, her husband is without a best buddy, and the real murderer is still on the loose! And everyone wonders why in the world the narrator would choose death over just confessing to a lesser crime. Everyone and their mother has covered this song ( including my mother). ![]() A murder is committed while the narrator - who's apparently the killer's doppelgänger - is in bed with his best friend's wife. ![]()
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