Someone mentioned "Run For Your Life" by the Beatles. John cribbed
the "I'd rather see you dead" line from "Baby Let's Play House" by
Elvis Presley. Not sure where El got it.
There's an excellent Richard Thompson song called "Killing Jar" that
clearly blames the narrator's murder of his sweetheart ("I hit her
with a log chain and I put her in the ground") on his low self-esteem.
The man-kills-his-woman theme runs through lots of blues songs, if
I'm not mistaken. At least a few of them say something to the effect
that "the day you leave me, baby, is the day you die." Dylan covered
one of these on his album "Good As I Been To You."
Best,
Ted
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Ted Greenwald
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