Poor Ellen Smith (Remastered)-The Kossoy Sisters

[ti:Poor Ellen Smith] [ar:Irene Kossoy] [al:Bowling Green And Other Folk Songs From The Southern Mountains (Digitally Remastered)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Poor Ellen Smith (Remastered) - The Kossoy Sisters [00:12.51]Poor Ellen Smith how was she found [00:16.34]Shot through the heart lying cold on the ground [00:20.54] [00:21.12]Her body was mangled and all cast around [00:24.92]A blood marks the spot where poor Ellen was found [00:29.24] [00:29.83]They picked up her body and carried it away [00:33.30] [00:33.97]Now she's a sleepin' in some lonesome grave [00:37.94] [00:47.61]Who had the heart and who had the brain [00:51.15]To shoot my little darling on that cold lonesome plain [00:55.29] [00:55.99]They picked up their rifles and hunted us down [00:59.89]They found us a loafin' all around town [01:03.77] [01:04.79]The judge my convict me and God knows he can [01:08.68]But I know I died as an innocent man [01:11.99] [01:22.20]I've been in this prison for seven long years [01:25.87]Each night I see Ellen through my bitter tears [01:29.94] [01:30.71]I got a letter yesterday I read it today [01:34.56]The flowers on her grave have all faded away [01:38.48] [01:39.44]The warden just told me that soon I'll be free [01:43.39]To go to her grave 'neath that old willow tree [01:46.98] [02:05.33]I'm free from the walls of that prison at last [02:09.22]But I'll never be free from my sins of the past [02:13.46] [02:14.37]Poor Ellen Smith how was she found [02:17.89]Shot through the heart lying cold on the ground