Getting to the heart of Delilah - Wales' most problematic song

Getting to the heart of Delilah - Wales' most problematic song

Tom Jones, Delilah Daniel Newman Murder ballads are songs about death and killing. These emotive topics – at once universal and particular – occupy artists from place to place, and across generation to generation. And no wonder. These dark and unpleasant topics of mortality challenge us, titillate us, compel us – even when we don’t want them to. Ballads are a type of narrative folk song, which emerged in Europe in the late Middle Ages. Much of t…