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Murder ballads are a sub-genre of the traditional ballad form the lyrics of which form a narrative describing the events of a murder often including the lead-up and/or aftermath. Traditional ballads are independent from broadsheet ballads insofar as the typical broadsheet form does not use the same formulas or structures and is rooted in a literate society: traditional ballads flourished within non-literate groups within society.