Bold William Taylor
Six for Gold track 10
“She shot her man, ‘cause he was doin’ her wrong”
Not in this case Frankie and Johnny, but Sarah Gray and William Taylor, in a song collected in Lincolnshire by the Australian composer Percy Grainger. The singer was a seventy-five year old Joseph Taylor, one of the finest English traditional singers ever recorded. Unusually for someone of his generation, we know just how good a singer Joseph Taylor was, as Grainger made cylinder recordings of him in 1908 which still survive today. His recording of this song is reproduced on Volume 6 of the Topic CD series Voice of the People.