Poor Ellen Smith chords by
Laura Cantrell

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Intro 1

Verse 1
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Come all
you people my story to hear
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What happened to me
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in June of last year
Oh, its poor Ellen Smith,
how was she found?
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Shot through the heart,
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lying dead on the ground

Verse 2
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Its true I'm in jail a prisoner now
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God is here with me and hears every vow
So I do promise the truth to relate
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I'll tell you all that I know
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of Ellen's sad fate

Verse 3
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I saw her on Monday
before that sad day
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A A 
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Found her body lying and took it away
That she had been murdered
never entered my mind
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Till a bullet through the heart they happened
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to find

Interlude 1

Verse 4
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Who is so cruel, so heartless, so base
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To murder my poor Ellen in such
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a lonesome place?
I seen her laid out so still and so cold
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I heard the wild stories
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the witnesses told

Verse 5
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I choked back the tears
as the people all said
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"It was you Peter Degraph, shot
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our Ellen Smith dead"
Ellen lies sleeping with
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her hand on her breast
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The bloodhounds and the sheriff
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won't give me no rest

Verse 6
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They got their Winchesters
and hunted me down
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I  stole away to Mt. Airy town
I laid off a year and I prayed the whole time
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The man could be found what
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committed the crime

Interlude 2

Verse 7
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I prayed I'd come back
and my character save
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But the flowers  faded round
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poor Ellen's grave
So I came back to Winston
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my trial to stand
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I'll live or I'll die as the
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law might command

Verse 8
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Ellen lies sleeping in
that lonesome churchyard
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I stare through the bars, God knows it's hard
I know they will hang me at least if they can
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But I swear to you,
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I'll die as an innocent man

Verse 9
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My soul will be free when I
stand at the bar
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Where God tries his cross,
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then there like a star
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That shines in the night will
my innocence shine
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And I'll make my appeal to the justice
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of time

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