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Brewster: Ballads and Songs of Indiana 287
7. "Retrace your way? No, never!
These woods you'll roam no more. No one on earth can save you; Pearl Bryan, you must die!"
8. Down on her knees before him
She pleaded for her life; Deep in her snow-white bosom He plunged a fatal knife.
9. "What have I done, Scott Jackson,
That you should take my life? You know I've always loved you, And would have been your wife.
10. "Farewell, my loving parents,
My happy peaceful home; Farewell, my dear old schoolmates; With you no more I'll roam.
11. "Farewell, my dear, dear sister,
My face you'll see no more; Long, long you'll wait my coming At the little cottage door."
12. And wrhile the birds were singing
So gaily all around, A stranger found Pearl Bryan, Cold, headless, on the ground.
"Pearl Bryan." Contributed by Mrs. C. H. Allardin, of McLeansboro, Illinois. Learned in Indiana. April 24, 1936. Nine stanzas. |
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"Pearl Bryan.n Contributed by Dr. Claude Lonsax, of Bale, Indiana-Spencer County. Obtained from Mrs. Earl UiklerML January 24, 19&& Five stanzas. |
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