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Poor Ellen Smith
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Laura Cantrell
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Come all you people my story to hear
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What happened to me in June of last year
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Oh, its poor Ellen Smith, how was she found?
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Shot through the heart, lying dead on the ground
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Its true I'm in jail a prisoner now
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God is here with me and hears every vow
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So I do promise the truth to relate
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I'll tell you all that I know of Ellen's sad fate
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I saw her on Monday before that sad day
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Found her body lying and took it away
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That she had been murdered never entered my mind
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Till a bullet through the heart they happened to find
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Who is so cruel, so heartless, so base
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To murder my poor Ellen in such a lonesome place?
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I seen her laid out so still and so cold
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I heard the wild stories the witnesses told
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I choked back the tears as the people all said
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"It was you Peter Degraph, shot our Ellen Smith dead"
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Ellen lies sleeping with her hand on her breast
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The bloodhounds and the sheriff won't give me no rest
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They got their Winchesters and hunted me down
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I stole away to Mt. Airy town
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I laid off a year and I prayed the whole time
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The man could be found what committed the crime
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I prayed I'd come back and my character save
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But the flowers faded round poor Ellen's grave
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So I came back to Winston my trial to stand
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I'll live or I'll die as the law might command
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Ellen lies sleeping in that lonesome churchyard
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I stare through the bars, God knows it's hard
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I know they will hang me at least if they can
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But I swear to you, I'll die as an innocent man
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My soul will be free when I stand at the bar
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Where God tries his cross, then there like a star
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That shines in the night will my innocence shine
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And I'll make my appeal to the justice of time
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