Barry HoldenThe very fall my sister Nancy KnappSet fire to the houseThey were trying Dr. DuvalFor the murder of Zora Clemens,And I sat in the court two weeksListening to every witness.It was clear he had got her in a family way;And to let the child be bornWould not do.Well, how about me with eight children,And one coming, and the farmMortgaged to Thomas Rhodes?And when I got home that night,(After listening to the story of the buggy ride,And the finding of Zora in the ditch,)The first thing I saw, right there by the steps,Where the boys had hacked for angle worms,Was the hatchet!And just as I entered there was my wife,Standing before me, big with child.She started the talk of the mortgaged farm,And I killed her.
The very fall my sister Nancy KnappSet fire to the houseThey were trying Dr. DuvalFor the murder of Zora Clemens,And I sat in the court two weeksListening to every witness.It was clear he had got her in a family way;And to let the child be bornWould not do.Well, how about me with eight children,And one coming, and the farmMortgaged to Thomas Rhodes?And when I got home that night,(After listening to the story of the buggy ride,And the finding of Zora in the ditch,)The first thing I saw, right there by the steps,Where the boys had hacked for angle worms,Was the hatchet!And just as I entered there was my wife,Standing before me, big with child.She started the talk of the mortgaged farm,And I killed her.