I love digging into historical details on neglected subjects I was listening to Where the Wild Roses Grow and ended up reading up on murder ballads I noticed that Cave s song was supposed to be inspired by Down in the Willow Garden that s still not verified and that an article on another song The Knoxville Girl referred to it too but we didn t have an article on it I was intrigued by it having a couple of names so I started digging I even shelled out for the article by Wilgus as it was obviously the main reference for this song Windows