Young Hunting

American variants of the song are more widely known as the song has been physically released. One of the earliest recorded variants was performed by blues singer Dick Justice in 1929 under the title "Henry Lee". The recording was anthologised in the first disc of Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music, Spiers and Boden recorded a version of the English variant in 2001 on the album Through & Through and credited the author as "Miss Stephenson of Glasgow" and said it was written in 1825. was released in 2010 on An Evening with A.L. Lloyd and was noted to have been traced back three generations further. ==Related songs==

The song is closely related to another Child Ballad, "Young Benjie", as it not only deals with a similar theme, but almost identical story, in which a male lover is murdered and thrown in a river by his female companion. "Child Waters" and "The False Lover Won Back", both murder ballads and Child Ballads, are similar and all four songs may have the same origin. Another similar song is "Lowe Bonnie", recorded by Jimmie Tarlton in 1930 and the Klemmedsons of the Ozark Folk Center, Mountain View, Arkansas, in 1972. It too is considered a variant of Child #68: Lowe Bonnie is described as a "hunting young man", he tells his "old true love" that he has a new woman, and she stabs him to death with a pen knife. ==Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds version==

"Henry Lee", a variant of "Young Hunting", is a song by the Australian post-punk band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. It is the third track and second single from the band's ninth studio album, Murder Ballads (1996), and was released on 26 February 1996 on Mute Records. The song, which features a duet between frontman Nick Cave and the English alternative rock musician PJ Harvey, is alternately–arranged in comparison to other more traditional versions of "Henry Lee". Lyrically, the song borrows heavily from Dick Justice's version of the song. and produced by Nick Verden for Atlas Films, the promotional music video for "Henry Lee" features one scene throughout; Nick Cave, in the role of Henry Lee, and PJ Harvey, in the role of his lover, singing the duet. There is a constant green backdrop in the background of the video. This format contrasted the former format used by Schenck for "Where the Wild Roses Grow" which focused on cinematography and featured several scenes. Body language is a stand-out feature of the video and after many varying forms of it, the pair slow dance at the end of the video. Chart positions ==References==