Sadie
Channel: Stephen Griffith
Date: 28/04/2020

Day 43 of the American Songbag Stay-at-Home Series  (folksongindex.com)

Sandburg writes: "This is a woman's version of the old story of Frankie and her man. Six young women from six old cities sang it at White Lake, Michigan. They wrap Sadie in a "sky-blue kimono." They have Sadie kill her man, he is hauled to the graveyard, and that's all. No arrest, no murder trial, neither acquittal nor execution.

"Text and tune here are from Julia Peterson of Ann Arbor."