Borden is the main subject of the song "She Took an Axe" by Flotsam and Jetsam on their 1986 album "Doomsday for the Deceiver". Borden is referenced in Amanda Palmer's 2012 song "Ukulele Anthem" whose lyrics include "Lizzie Borden took an axe and gave her father thirty whacks/then gave her mother thirty-one, and left a tragic puzzle/If only they had given her an instrument/those Puritans/had lost the plot completely/See what happens when you muzzle/a person's creativity/and do not let them sing or scream/and nowadays it's worse 'cause kids have automatic handguns/It takes about an hour to learn how to play the ukulele, about the same to teach someone to build a standard pipe bomb/You do the math."