Poor Ellen Smith - Laura Cantrell

[00:00.0]Poor Ellen Smith - Laura Cantrell
[00:11.12]Come all you people my story to hear
[00:15.23]What happened to me in June of last year
[00:20.49]Oh its poor Ellen Smith how was she found
[00:25.3]Shot through the heart lying dead on the ground
[00:30.78]Its true I'm in jail a prisoner now
[00:35.21]God is here with me and hears every vow
[00:40.82]So I do promise the truth to relate
[00:44.25]I'll tell you all that I know of Ellen's sad fate
[00:50.47]I saw her on Monday before that sad day
[00:54.9]Found her body lying and took it away
[01:00.4]That she had been murdered never entered my mind
[01:04.57]Till a bullet through the heart they happened to find
[01:20.43]Who is so cruel so heartless so base
[01:24.24]To murder my poor Ellen in such a lonesome place
[01:30.1]I seen her laid out so still and so cold
[01:34.42]I heard the wild stories the witnesses told
[01:40.08]I choked back the tears as the people all said
[01:44.39]"It was you Peter Degraph shot our Ellen Smith dead"
[01:50.5]Ellen lies sleeping with her hand on her breast
[01:54.43]The bloodhounds and the sheriff won't give me no rest
[02:00.17]They got their Winchesters and hunted me down
[02:04.61]I stole away to Mt Airy town
[02:10.27]I laid off a year and I prayed the whole time
[02:14.9]The man could be found what committed the crime
[02:30.52]I prayed I'd come back and my character save
[02:34.95999]But the flowers faded round poor Ellen's grave
[02:40.38]I came back to Winston my trial to stand
[02:44.64]I'll live or I'll die as the law might command
[02:50.32]Ellen lies sleeping in that lonesome churchyard
[02:54.68]I stare through the bars God knows it's hard
[03:00.28]I know they will hang me at least if they can
[03:04.66]But I swear to you I'll die as an innocent man
[03:10.48]My soul will be free when I stand at the bar
[03:14.79]Where God tries his cross then there like a star
[03:21.53]That shines in the night will my innocence shine
[03:25.83]And I'll make my appeal to the justice of time