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John Smith
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Sit down here beside me
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And I'll tell you a tale
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Of lonely old Axe Mountain town
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And Lester Joseph Cale
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In a place the men would work by day,
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The women worked at night
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And came together evening time
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To love and then to fight
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Long hours did the women work
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And hard their burden was,
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So doubly hard they worried when
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Young Lily May was lost
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Axe Mountain town, you let those women
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Die by the knife
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A lover did I have for sure
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I'll love her all my life
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Lily May was mourned
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Another week passed in the rain
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Until the day of harvest came
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And we were missing Jane
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Another season's toil gone,
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Another season's more;
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'Til Lily, Jane and dozens still
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Were buried on the Moor
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What did their husbands say?
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They simply cowered, weak and frail
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For none would dare to speak that name,
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Lester Joseph Cale
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Axe Mountain town, you let those women
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Die by the knife
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A lover did I have for sure
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I'll keep her all my life
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He came out of the darkness
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With a rucksack made of skin
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And just as soon as he was seen
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He was gone again
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I heard he'd been a murderer
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Fifty years or more
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Heard he killed whole villages
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All across the Moor
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I'm told he had a family
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A child and a wife
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But now no woman here was safe
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From Lester Joseph Cale's knife
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"Stand up! Be strong! We'll take him!"
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Said the bravest of the men
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Dead in his bed, was found that night
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In pieces, there were ten
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'All shall be bled', was written
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In red on the bedroom wall
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His Helena, she saw this
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And she fled across the Moor
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Axe Mountain town, you let those women
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Die by the knife
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A lover did I have for sure
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I'll hold her all my life
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She climbed up old Axe Mountain
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And she raised her hands and cried:
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"Grant me a weapon, gods of mine,
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that Lester Cale may die"
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The sky did crack, and split the mountain
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Helena reached inside
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Pulled out an axe so terrible
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That any man would die
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She screamed with rage
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And flung herself into the town below
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Tore off her clothes and waited for
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Lester Joseph Cale to show
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And so he did, he came and laughed:
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"Little girl, what is your plan?
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You're alone here, it's just you and me
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I butchered your old man"
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Said she: "Bastard! Don't speak his name!
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Don't mention my old man!"
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And so she struck him in the face
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And cut off both his hands
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She cut him and cut him twice again
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'Til she could cut no more
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She fed his meat and bones
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To wild dogs upon the Moor
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The seasons passed and
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Helena remained there 'til she died
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The men went off in search
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Of better jobs and living brides
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But a woman there was mine, you see
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I loved her more than life
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So scared was I
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So scared of Lester Joseph Cale was I,
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I could not protect my wife
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Axe Mountain town, you let those women
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Die by the blade
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A lover did I have for sure
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Regret it every day
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Axe Mountain town, you let those women
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Die by the knife
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A lover did I have for sure
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I'll love her all my life
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