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4 unusual facts about Delia Green


Delia Green

Among the many singers who have covered "Delia" are Bob Dylan and David Bromberg.

In the music video for Cash's fourth recording, Delia is played by Kate Moss.

In 1928, folklorist Robert Winslow Gordon reported to the Library of Congress that he had traced the songs back to a murder in Savannah, and that he had interviewed both Green's mother and the police officer who took Houston into custody.

One version, usually attributed to Blake Alphonso Higgs (the calypso singer also known as "Blind Blake"), is known as "Delia's Gone," and is explicitly told from her killer's point of view.



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