Little Mary Phagan

歌詞

Little Mary Phagan, she went to town one day She went to the pencil fact'ry, to get her little pay She left her home at seven, she kissed her mother good-bye Not one time did the po' child think the she was goin' to die Then a villain met her, with a brutal heart we know He smiled and said, "Lil' Mary, now you go home no more" He sneaked along behind her, 'til she reached the little room He laughed and said, "Lil' Mary, you've met your fatal doom" Newt Lee was the watchman, and when he wounnd the key Away down in the basement, lil' Mary he could see He called for the officers, their names I do not know They came to the pencil factr'y, and told Newt he must go Her mother sets a-weepin', she weeps and mourns all day She prays to meet her baby, in a better world some day Judge Roan passed the sentence, you bet he passed it well Solicitor Hugh M. Dorsey, he sent the brute to death Astonished asked the question, the angels they do say Why he kill lil' Mary, upon one holiday? Come all of you good people, wherever you may be Supposin' little Mary belonged to you or me?