Here's the word to the Patrick Sky song I can't find a youtube link for it:

                        
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Dirge to Love Gone By    --    by Patrick Sky
C 1967 Rabelaisian Music

For the sake of the song, I'll just call her Helen
A child of society, both parents dead
Up until now, she had no police record
She committed a felony, so it is said.
In her second month, she tells us the story
How she tried to abort but without success
By drinking some ergot with pepper mixed in it
With the aid of a close friend, they both did their best.

She prayed and she prayed but her prayers were not answered
Impressed in her mind that she must bear the child
And she said on that day while cleaning the stairway
Came a pain in her belly, like a knife in her side.
Twelve hours later, half-mad with her labor
As she lay on her thin sheets, numb from the cold
With half-frozen fingers she delivered a boychild
And the birth of her child was the death of her soul.

No doctor would heal her, no priest would confess her,
As she lay in her bed, eyes fixed in a stare
And the cries of her child were stilled by her raving
Racked by the pain as she pulled at her hair.
She couldn't remember just how long she lay there
It might have been hours, it seemed more like weeks
She said that the child had long stopped its crying
For she beat it with her fists until it had ceased.

Yesterday Helen she died in her prison cell
Bringing to bear on the sins of us all
An unmarried mother, convicted of murder
Her only possession was a badly worn shawl.


Copied from the jacket of "Photographs" by Patrick Sky