and berzil wallin-- she knew a lot of old ballads and old love songs, and then when she sang this veryion with death, it's got kind of a moralizing to it, like 18th century, 19th century, i think really 18th century frontier attitude on heaven and hell, and of course she was pretty old and feeble by the time she was singing it for me. you got the feeling in the film that she was going through that struggle herself. ♪ my heart fixed. i'm summoned to hell. ♪ ♪ as long as god in heaven tells well, ♪ ♪ my soul, my soul shall scream in hell. ♪ ♪ one pleasant summer's morning ♪ ♪ when the birds were sweetly singing, oh. ♪ in the ballad tradition, the tune is extremely important. these tunes are usually beautiful, and they are hand crafted to stick in the mind. there seems to be a receptor in the mind for tunes. it just attaches itself to your mind. and because of that, you'll remember long stretches of text that you could never remember any other way. ♪ me flower of... people sometimes think of ballads, sort of as memory. i like to think of it that-- if you're gonna connect to a song because