It sounds like a riff on Josh Ritter’s superficially lovely, but in fact terrifying, song “The Temptation of Adam”. But the song is fantastic and knows that it is manipulative.

Kate Rusby’s versions of I Am Stretched Out on Your Grave and the Drowned Lovers are both great. As for among the most chilling of the Child Ballads, probably Lord Thomas and Fair Ellender, where a scorned woman mocks her lover’s fiancee as the ‘brown girl’ (at the time, probably an indication of olive skin or tan…