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They found Mary Bellows cuffed to the bed |
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With a rag in her mouth and a bullet in her head |
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O poor Mary Bellows |
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She'd grown up hungry, she'd grown up poor |
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She left her home in Arkansas |
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O poor Mary Bellows |
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She wanted to see the deep blue sea |
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She travelled across Tennessee |
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O poor Mary Bellows |
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She met a man along the way |
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He introduced himself as Richard Slade |
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O poor Mary Bellows |
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Poor Mary thought that she might die |
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When she saw the ocean for the first time |
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O poor Mary Bellows |
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She checked into a cheap little place |
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Richard Slade carried in her old suitcase |
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O poor Mary Bellows |
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"I'm a good girl, sir", she said to him |
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I couldn't possibly permit you in |
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O poor Mary Bellows |
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Slade tipped his hat and winked his eye |
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And turned away without goodbye |
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O poor Mary Bellows |
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She sat on her bed and thought of home |
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With the sea breeze whistling all alone |
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O poor Mary Bellows |
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In hope and loneliness she crossed the floor |
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And undid the latch on the front door |
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O poor Mary Bellows |
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They found her the next day cuffed to the bed |
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A rag in her mouth and a bullet in her head |
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O poor Mary Bellows |
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So mothers keep your girls at home |
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Don't let them journey all alone |
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Tell them this world is full of danger |
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And to shun the company of strangers |
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O poor Mary Bellows |
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O poor Mary Bellows |
