Key: C major
Verse 1
C
F
C
Poor Ellen Smith
how was she found
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C
Shot through the heart lying
cold on the ground
Her clothers were all scattered
and thrown on the ground
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C
And blood marks the spot where poor
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C
Ellen was found
They picked up their rifles
and hunted me down
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C
And found me a loafing
all around town
They picked up the body
and carried it away
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C
And now she is sleeping in some lone
G
C
F
some old grave
C
F
C
I got a letter yesterday
and I read it today
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C
The flowers on her grave have
and say when I go
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C
On poor Ellen's grave pretty flowers
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C
G
C
I'll sow
I've been in this prison
for twenty long years
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C
Each night I see El len through my
G
C
bitter tears
The warden just told me
that soon I'll be free
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C
To go to her grave near that
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C
old willow tree
My days in this prison
are ending at last
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C
I'll never be free from
the sins of my past
Poor Ellen Smith how was she found
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C
lying cold on the ground
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