Here are Brand's lyrics. Did anybody else notice the it was the bitch of a landlady who actually killed Bella, and not the dirty skunk?


UNHAPPY BELLA

Now Bella was young and Bella was fair
With bright blue eyes and golden hair
O unhappy Bella
Her step was light and her heart was gay
But she had no sense and one fine day
She got herself put in a family way
By a mean and wicked heartless cruel deceiver


She went to his house but the dirty skunk
Had packed his bags and had done a bunk
O unhappy Bella
Her landlady said Get out, you whore
Don't cross my threshold or darken my door
Poor Bella was put to affliction sore
By a mean and wicked heartless cruel deceiver


All night she tramped the icy snows
What she suffered nobody knows
O unhappy Bella
And when the morning dawned so red
Alas, alas, poor Bella was dead
Sent in her youth to a lonely bed
By a mean and wicked heartless cruel deceiver


So thus you see, do what we will
The fruits of sin are suffering still
O unhappy Bella
As into the grave they laid her low
The men said Alas but life it is so
But the women were chanting sweet and low
It's all the men, they've done it again, the bastards.
The mean and wicked heartless cruel deceivers.