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The Australian traditional song over the border has a conflicted attitude about Mad Dog Morgan. Was Morgan viewed sympathetically in his time? Is it typical of murder ballads to have a conflicted attitude towards their subjects?

by /u/OmnivorousWelles in /r/AskHistorians

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