This song is about real killings that happened about 80 years ago. Lizzy Borden's parents were killed with an axe and lizzy was put on trial for the murders.
she was let off because the court was convinced that she was too nice to have killed her parents. The case was seen by the public in much the same was that OJ Simpson's trail was in the 90s.
Everyone knew Lizzy killed her parents and got away with it. this songs refrain: "
Lizzy Borden took an axe, gave her mother forty whacks,
When she saw what she had done, she gave her father forty-one. "
This song is about real killings that happened about 80 years ago. Lizzy Borden's parents were killed with an axe and lizzy was put on trial for the murders.
she was let off because the court was convinced that she was too nice to have killed her parents. The case was seen by the public in much the same was that OJ Simpson's trail was in the 90s.
Everyone knew Lizzy killed her parents and got away with it. this songs refrain: " Lizzy Borden took an axe, gave her mother forty whacks, When she saw what she had done, she gave her father forty-one. "
became a popular saying after the trail.