What inspired Tom Jones' ballad Delilah? trends now
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It is a song about a scorned man murdering his love in revenge for her infidelity.
Tom Jones's 1968 hit Delilah has hit the headlines again this week, with news that Welsh rugby bosses have banned their choir from singing what has become an unofficial anthem for the nation's fans.
Its lyrics say: 'At break of day when that man drove away, I was waiting. I cross the street to her house and she opened the door. She stood there laughing... I felt the knife in my hand and she laughed no more.'
The piercing words, penned by the late songwriter Barry Mason, have always prompted questions about what inspired them.
Mason said he was both inspired by US crooner Frankie Laine's hit Jezebel - a song about a 'devil' lover - and his teenage ordeal of a girl named Delia he met on holiday telling him she had a boyfriend, an experience that left him 'sick with jealousy'.
It is a song about a scorned man murdering his love in revenge for her infidelity. Tom Jones's 1968 hit Delilah has hit the headlines again this week
The piercing words were penned by the late songwriter Barry Mason (pictured with Tom Jones and have always prompted questions about what inspired them
But his wife Sylvan claimed Mason's original idea was to make the song about the
