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Amanda

from Shawnee, Ohio by Brian Harnetty

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Amanda Hook sings a local murder ballad, “Terrill.” The murder took place in the aptly named town of Gore, not far from Shawnee.

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Anne Grimes: We’re in Jacksonville, Athens County, and, uh, this is in September, 1958. And this is Mrs. Amanda Hook. And you were born here in Athens County, although you live now out of Glouster in Perry County.

Anne: Was Terrill generally sung around when you were a young child, or do you remember?
Amanda: Yeah, it was sung, but...
Anne: Yeah. Do you happen to have a memory of where, from whom you learned it?
Amanda: My mother, and my grandmother.
Anne: Your mother and grandmother. Okay. And, uh, you say this is, this tune, is, well, let’s just do it.
Amanda: Hah, Yeah!

Terrill was born near Gore, my boys
A place you all know well
Brought up by honest parents
The truth to you I’ll tell
Brought up by honest parents
And proved most tenderly
‘Til Terrill become a roving boy
Which proved dishonesty

Terrill’s character was taken
And he was sent to jail
His parents tried to free him
But it was all a fail
The judge he passed the sentence
And quickly wrote them down
Then Terrill was cast in the county jail
That stands in Logan town

Terrill took a ride on the west-bound train
All on one summer’s day
And every station he passed by
He heard the people say
“There goes that noted murderer
Bound down with armor strong
He killed the Weldon family
He’s bound for Columbus town”

When he arrived at Columbus
Stood pleading at the gate
He took a view around him
How I pitied his sad face
The green hills and the meadows
No more to see for years
While Terrill stood there with a broken heart
His poor eyes filled with tears

His dear old aged father
Stood pleading at the bars
Likewise his dear old aged mother
How she tore her old gray hairs
She tore her old gray hairs, my boys
‘Til the tears came rolling down
Saying, “Son, oh son, what have you done
This prison you are bound”

Come all you false-hearted people
Take warning from me
Never go a’courting
For spite or jealousy
For if you do you’ll surely rue
And someday be like me
Be hammering hard in hash my boys
In the Ohio penitentiary

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from Shawnee, Ohio, released April 26, 2019

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Brian Harnetty Columbus, Ohio

Interdisciplinary artist using sound and listening to foster social change. Recordings on Winesap, Karl, Dust-to-Digital, Atavistic, and Scioto Records.

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