EARLY IDAHO SONGS OF THE MONTH - March 2010

Lyda Southard's Famous Apple Pie (unknown songwriter, 1921)  This song is about Lyda Southard, the infamous “Lady Blackbeard” of Idaho who poisoned at least four husbands with her apple pies laced with arsenic.  Her sensational murder trial in 1921 in Twin Falls was covered coast to coast.  The song likely dates to that year.  According to some accounts, Lyda was convicted of murder in the second degree rather than first degree because the jurors couldn't stomach the though of hanging a woman. Lyrics are from Rosalie Sorrel's book "Way Out in Idaho," with the note “Folksong sung to the tune of “Annie Laurie”.” John Larsen of Givens Hot Springs, Idaho delivers and excellent rendition of how this song might have sounded in aTwin Falls bar around the time of the trial.

No Instrumental Posted for Mar. 2010
 

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