Dead Poet Society and the Irish ballad of Bloet Goet

"In a mean abode
 On Shankill Road
 Lived a man named William Bloet

 Now he had a wife
 The plague of his life
 Who continually got his Goet

 And one day at dawn
 With her night shift on
 He slit her Bloody Throat"

Dead Poet's Society, 1989
(at minute 38, in the cave)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Poets_Society


"In a mean abode on the Shankill Road
Lived a man named William Bloat
And he had a wife, the bane of his life
Who always got his goat
And one day at dawn, with her nightdress on
He slit her bloody throat

Now, he was glad he had done what he had
As she lay there stiff and still
'Til suddenly awe of the angry law
Filled his soul with an awful chill
And to finish the fun so well begun
He decided himself to kill

Then he took the sheet from his wifes cold feet
And he twisted it into a rope
And he hanged himself from the pantry shelf
'Twas an easy end, let's hope
With his dying breath and he facing death
He solemnly cursed the Pope

But the strangest turn of the whole concern
Is only just beginning
He went to hell, but his wife got well
And she's still alive and sinning
For the razor blade was German-made
But the rope was Belfast linen"


Raymond Calvert

1906-1953




http://www.kinglaoghaire.com/lyrics/320-william-bloat

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The Dead Milkmen cover the ballad:

http://kinginyellow.wikia.com/wiki/The_King_In_Yellow/William_Bloat

"David Schulthise (September 16, 1956 – March 10, 2004), otherwise known as Dave Blood, was the bass guitarist for the punk band Dead Milkmen.

 Schulthise was born in Ridley Park, Pennsylvania. He helped form the band in 1983 along with fellow pseudonymous musicians Joe Jack Talcum, Dean Clean, and Rodney Anonymous. Prior to this he was a Ph.D. candidate in economics at Purdue University.[1]

He stopped playing music in 1995 after the band broke up as the result of developing tendinitis in both hands."