The lyrics as I've transcribed them are: Leo Frank met her With the brutely heart we know He smiled and said, "Little Mary now you'll go home no more" He sneak'd along behind her Till she reach'd the metal room He laughed and said, "Little Mary you met your fatal doom." She fell upon her knees To Leo Frank she pled Because she was virt'ous He hit her 'cross the head The tears roll'd down her rosy cheeks The blood flow'ded down her back She remember'd tellin' her mother What time she would be back He kill'd little Mary Phagan Was on one holiday Then call'd for old Jim Conley To take her body away He took her to the basement Bound hand & feet Down in the basement Little Mary lay'd asleep Newt Lee was the watchman When he went to wind the key Down in the basement Little Mary he could see He call'd for the officers Their names I do not know They came to the pencil fact'ry Sayin', "Newt Lee you must go" They took him to the jailhouse Lock'd him in a cell The pore ol' innocent nigga Knew nothing for to tell I have a notion in my head When Frank come to die He took his damination In the courthouse in the sky Th'stonish'd ask'd the question The angels they did say, "Why'd he kill little Mary On one holiday" Come all of you good people Wherever you may be Supposing little Mary Belong'd to you or me Her mother sits a-weeping She weeps and mourns all day She prays to meet her baby In a better world someday Judge Roan pass'd the sentence You bet he's pass'd it well Solic'tor Hugh M. Dorsey Sent Leo frank to The last line is left off unfinish'd, but I think you'll get the idea of what the last word would be if Ms. Carson didn't self-censor.
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