As a female folk musician it is irritating and boring when, in song after song, women are murdered, raped, deceived, burned - you name it - by men. Lucy Wan is a perfect example of this. Man impregnates woman, man murders woman, lies about it to his mother, runs away and ultimately gets away with it.
I wanted to give a voice to Lucy in my version

As a female folk musician it is irritating and boring when, in song after song, women are murdered, raped, deceived, burned - you name it - by men. Lucy Wan is a perfect example of this. Man impregnates woman, man murders woman, lies about it to his mother, runs away and ultimately gets away with it.
I wanted to give a voice to Lucy in my version of the song, because in most renditions all she can do is cry and tell her brother he has made her pregnant before he swiftly kills her.
I gave Lucy Wan power and a voice in the song, just as she and endless other women in endless other folk songs deserve.