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Our Singing Country
7  He threw her onto the ground, and she broke into tears, She threw her arms around him and trembled with fear.
8  "O Willie, please Willie, please spare my sweet life, How an you kill a girl that was to be your wife?"
9  "There's no time to talk now, there's no time to stand," He drew out his knife all in his right hand.
10  He stabbed her to the heart, her heart's blood it did flow, And into the grave pretty Polly did go.
11   He threw a little dirt over her and started for home, Leaving no one behind but the wild birds to mourn.
12  A debt to the devil poor Willie must pay, For killing pretty Polly and running.away.
THE LEXINGTON MURDER
a. No. 1369. Ace. on guitar and sung by Fields Ward, Galax, Va., 1937. See: Sh, 1:4025 Cox, p. 905 39:1255 Be, p. 133.
"I guess she was in a family way and he didn't want to marry her"
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