VERSES ON THE EXECUTION OF DANIEL GOOD..Extract (May 1842)

To his masters stables in Putney Park Lane
They went, but she never returned again
Prepare for your end then the monster did cry
Your time has come and you must die

Then, with a sharp hatchet, her head did cleave
She begged for mercy, but, none did he give
Have mercy Daniel, my wretched life spare
For the sake of own child which you know I bear

No Mercy, cried he, then repeated the blow
Alive from this stable you never shall go
Neither you nor your brat shall trouble me more
Then lifeless his victim he struck to the floor

And when she was dead this sad deed to hide
The limbs from her body he straight did divide
Her bowels ript open and dripping with gore
The child from the womb this black monster he tore

When in searching the stable, the body was spied
Without head. legs, or arms, and ript open beside
Then a cry of murder quickly did arise
And the coachman was taken within a very few days.


(Aaah, have fond memories of hearing this at primary school on the radio in the late fifties...Oh how we laughed, and danced around the room)