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The Smiths Suffer Little Children, From The Album "The Smiths" (1984)A Song About The Manchester Moor Murders
Sort by Word Magazine blogs (Free subscription) - 10/21/2009
The last song I heard before I got out of my car this morning before going into work was "Suffer Little Children" by The Smiths. Morrissey and Marr's lament to the children murdered by Brady and Hindley on Saddleworth Moor in the mid 60's has been stuck in my head all day and I'm not quite sure how I feel about it. The phenomenal Marr guitar playing mixed with Morrisseys ambiguous lyric and the haunting...
