Tom:
Introdução:
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Marie Farrar. Orphaned minor
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Rickets. Birthmarks none
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Admits that she did kill her child
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As follows here in summary
(Sung)
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She visited a woman in a basement
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When she was two months gone, as she reports it
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And she had two injections there
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Which hurt so bad but they did not abort it
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And you I beg make not your anger manifest
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For all that live need help from all the rest
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Nonetheless she paid her bill
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Returned to work to scrub the floor and wash the plates
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She knew that she would soon begin to show
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She prayed to Mary, her hopes were great
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Then on that morning six months later
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As she began to scrub the stairs
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A pain came clawing into her guts
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She knew the thing would soon be there
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And you I beg make not your anger manifest
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For all that live need help from all the rest
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She worked until after ten
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She could not give birth in peace until the household slept
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Then she bore a son like any mother's son
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While she, now a mother, wept
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For she was not like other mothers are
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But there are no valid grounds why we should mock her
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Then the child began to cry
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Which vexed her, so she said
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She beat it with her fists both blind and wild
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Til it was quiet and it was dead
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She took the body into bed
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Slept with it for the rest of the night
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And in the morning when the household was out
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She hid it in the laundry shed where it was out of sight
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And you I beg make not your anger manifest
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For all that live need help from all the rest
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Marie Farrar died in a penitentiary
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An unwed mother judged by law
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And she will show how all that lives, lives frailly
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And you who bear your sons in laundered linen sheets
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And speak of your pregnancies as a blessed state
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She never damned the outcast and the weak
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Her sin was heavy, her sorrow great
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Her sin was heavy, her sorrow great