The Kindness Of Strangers-Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

[ti:The Kindness of Strangers] [ar:Nick Cave & the bad seeds] [al:Murder Ballads] [by:] [offset:0] [00:11.67]They found Mary Bellows cuffed to the bed [00:16.86]With a rag in her mouth and a bullet in her head [00:20.67]O poor Mary Bellows [00:31.07]She'd grown up hungry she'd grown up poor [00:36.14]She left her home in Arkansas [00:41.64]O poor Mary Bellows [00:52.52]She wanted to see the deep blue sea [00:57.71]She travelled across Tennessee [01:03.39]O poor Mary Bellows [01:13.15]She met a man along the way [01:18.02]He introduced himself as Richard Slade [01:24.84]O poor Mary Bellows [01:34.21]Poor Mary thought that she might die [01:39.08]When she saw the ocean for the first time [01:42.08]O poor Mary Bellows [01:54.22]She checked into a cheap little place [01:59.08]Richard Slade carried in her old suitcase [02:05.58]O poor Mary Bellows [02:15.07]"I'm a good girl sir" she said to him [02:18.95]I couldn't possibly permit you in [02:21.57]O poor Mary Bellows [02:25.57] [02:34.62]Slade tipped his hat and winked his eye [02:39.37]And turned away without goodbye [02:45.93]O poor Mary Bellows [02:54.55]She sat on her bed and thought of home [02:59.56]With the sea breeze whistling all alone [03:02.55]O poor Mary Bellows [03:16.18]In hope and loneliness she crossed the floor [03:22.12]And undid the latch on the front door [03:26.74]O poor Mary Bellows [03:30.05]They found her the next day cuffed to the bed [03:40.13]A rag in her mouth and a bullet in her head [03:52.07]O poor Mary Bellows [03:57.01]So mothers keep your girls at home [04:02.70]Don't let them journey all alone [04:07.76]Tell them this world is full of danger [04:12.01]And to shun the company of strangers [04:16.52]O poor Mary Bellows [04:26.88]O poor Mary Bellows