MUSIC: Three Tune Tuesday - 3 Songs about Suicide (2 Covers and an Original!)

Hello everybody on HIVE, and especially the Music Community. My name is Jasper and I'm writing (and singing) to you from Cape Town, South Africa.

This is my second week contributing to "Three Tunes Tuesday", started by @ablaze.

I thought it would be good to continue building my mini-set of 2 cover songs and 1 original song around a theme. This week I've chosen the heavy and emotionally-challenging theme of Songs about Suicide.

To everyone who has lost somebody they care about to Suicide, I am truly sorry and know a little bit about how that feels. I hope you still find these songs interesting and worth listening to.

The songs I've chosen are:

"The Butcher Boy" - This is a traditional song, but the version I know is by Tommy Makem and the Clancy Brothers. Watch their stunning performance of this perfect tragic ballad here:

"Suicidal Dream" - This is by an Australian Rock band from the 90's called Silverchair that my older sister introduced me to when I was very young. Here's a live performance from when MTV actually played music!

Finally, my own original song is called "Fairy and the 'Fly". It is a tragic fairy-tale to music and so the lyrics are quite important. Let me provide those to you now:

Let me tell you a story, I wonder if you know
About a fairy family, who lived a long time ago
Father was a rich man, mother was covered in gold
Daughter, she was so gorgeous, her eyes cut deep down in your soul...

A band of trolls came into the forest, on a night that was bitterly cold
They'd heard of the fairy family, they'd heard of all of the gold
That night they sprang into action, that night there was blood to be spilled
Though father, he begged them for mercy, both he and fairy mother were killed...

And as for fairy daughter, the trolls did terrible things
They abandoned her in a swamp, after tearing off both of her wings
With a bleeding back she fainted, she was certain that she would soon die
But she woke up to find herself in the house of a kind dragonfly

Dragonfly said "I'll give you food, and I'll worship you all of my life"
"Fairy daughter you are so pretty, won't you please be my wife?"
"But you're an ugly beast!" said the daughter, "and I don't care for all of your things"
"Never again will I truly be happy, until I have a new pair of wings!"

The next morning she found the 'fly, had hung himself with spider's thread
And through the tears in her eyes fairy daughter saw that her saviour was really dead
He'd left a note explaining how because they'd never exchange any rings
He'd killed himself, now with a knife and a spell, she could help herself to his wings

Well you're my fairy daughter
And I'm your dragonfly
Because you would not love me
I hang my head and I... I cry...

Thank you so much for listening and see you next week!