Let's ban The Murder of Maria Martin then: Come all you thoughtless young men, A warning take by me To think on my unhappy fate To be hanged upon a tree. My name is William Corder, To you I do declare I courted Maria Marten, Most beautiful and fair. I promised I would marry her Upon a certain day; Instead of that I was resolved To take her life away. I went unto her father's house The eighteenth day of May And said, “My dear Maria, We will fix a wedding day.” With her heart so light she thought no harm To meet me she did go. I murdered her all in the barn And laid her body low. After the horrid deed was done She laid there in her gore Her bleeding, mangled body lay Beneath the Red Barn floor.
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