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Thread #48352   Message #725482
Posted By: Mrrzy
07-Jun-02 - 03:52 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Pearl Bryant (murder ballad)
Subject: Lyr Add: PEARL BRYANT (from Dean Gitter)
Also from my Dean Gitter album, I think, also ending in a pun (see the Bloody Nose thread), can anyone fill in the blanks?

In Greencastle lived Pearl Bryant who was known this wide world o'er
Beheaded by Scott Jackson, whom she really did adore
In a cab one rainy evening, just before the close of day
Up rode Walling and Jackson, and with Pearl they rode away
Little did poor Pearl think when she left her home so gay
That the suitcase that she carried would hide her head one day
A farmer passing by her lifeless form he found
Lying there without a head, her blood all over the ground
Next morning the people were excited, and they looked around and they said
Here lays a woman's body but where o where is the head
(then there is something about having to identify the body, I think the Mom faints?)
They arrested Walling and Jackson, and they locked them in the cell
And the people gathered around them, but nothing would they tell
In came Pearl's sister and she fell down on her knees
Pleading with Scott Jackson, give me sister's head, o please
Jackson he was so stubborn that this is what he said
If you meet your sister in heaven, you'll find the missing head
(then I'm missing something else)
So you girls who fall in love, you still may be misled
Don't take any hasty actions, O girls don't lose your head!