Here is a Different Version of Lehigh Valley. Completely free of filth. This is a real nice ballad; melody is similar to Little Rosewood Casket. (Sorry don't have a midi card to play available versions to know whether my melody is different or not.

The lyrics are as follows:


DOWN IN LEHIGH VALLEY

Let me sit down a minute, stranger.
I ain't done a thing to you.
Now you needn't start your swearing.
A stone got in my shoe.

Yes, I'm a tramp. what of it?
Some folks say we're no good,
But a tramp has got to live,
Though some say we never should.

It was down in Lehigh Valley
Me and my people grew.
I was the village blacksmith,
Yes, and a good one too.

Me and my daughter Nellie,
Nellie was just sixteen,
And she was the prettiest creature
The valley had ever seen.

Beaus, she had a dozen.
They came from near and far,
But most of them were farmers,
And none of them suited her.

Then along came a stranger,
Young, handsome, straight and tall.
I wish I had him strangled
Right there against that wall.

He was the man for Nellie.
Nellie knew no ilk.
Her father tried to tell her,
But you know how young girls will.

Well, it's the same old story,
Common enough, you'll say.
Lord, he was a smooth-time devil
And he got her to run away.

It was less than a month a-later
That we heard from the poor young thing.
He had gone away and left her
Without a wedding ring.

Back to our home they brought her,
Back to her mother's side,
Filled with a raging fever.
She fell at our feet and died.

Frantic with grief and troubles,
Her mother began to sink,
Dead in less than a fortnight.
Stranger, that's why I took to drink.

So give me a drink, bartender,
And I'll be on my way,
And I'll hunt the runt that stole my girls
If it takes 'til judgment day.