Poor Ellen Smith-Laura Cantrell

[ti:Poor Ellen Smith] [ar:Laura Cantrell] [al:Humming By the Flowered Vine] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]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 [00:19.61] [00:20.49]Oh its poor Ellen Smith how was she found [00:24.79] [00:25.30]Shot through the heart lying dead on the ground [00:29.53] [00:30.78]Its true I'm in jail a prisoner now [00:34.52] [00:35.21]God is here with me and hears every vow [00:40.02] [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 [00:49.36] [00:50.47]I saw her on Monday before that sad day [00:54.90]Found her body lying and took it away [01:00.40]That she had been murdered never entered my mind [01:04.57]Till a bullet through the heart they happened to find [01:10.31] [01:20.43]Who is so cruel so heartless so base [01:24.24]To murder my poor Ellen in such a lonesome place [01:29.30] [01:30.10]I seen her laid out so still and so cold [01:34.42]I heard the wild stories the witnesses told [01:39.15] [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" [01:48.76] [01:50.50]Ellen lies sleeping with her hand on her breast [01:54.43]The bloodhounds and the sheriff won't give me no rest [01:59.30] [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 [02:14.90]The man could be found what committed the crime [02:19.41] [02:30.52]I prayed I'd come back and my character save [02:34.39] [02:34.96]But the flowers faded round poor Ellen's grave [02:39.57] [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 [02:49.20] [02:50.32]Ellen lies sleeping in that lonesome churchyard [02:54.68]I stare through the bars God knows it's hard [02:59.47] [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 [03:09.36] [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 [03:19.04] [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