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Thread #835   Message #3948000
Posted By: GUEST
04-Sep-18 - 08:44 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Little Mary Phagan/Phagen/Fagan/Fagen...
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Mary Phagen/Fagen/Fagin/Phagan/Fagan
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.