Billy Strings & Don Julin - Poor Ellen Smith Lyrics

Billy Strings & Don Julin Lyrics

"Poor Ellen Smith"

Poor Ellen Smith how she was found
Shot through the heart lying cold on the ground

They picked up their rifles and hunted me down
And found me a-loafing in Mount Airy town

Poor Ellen Smith how she was found
Shot through the heart lying cold on the ground

Her clothes were all scattered and thrown on the ground
And blood marks the spot where poor Ellen was found
I got a letter yesterday and I read it today
The flowers on her grave have all faded away

Poor Ellen Smith how she was found
Shot through the heart lying cold on the ground

I've been in this prison for twenty long years
Each night I see Ellen through my bitter tears
The warden just told me that soon I'll be free
To go to her grave near that old willow tree

Poor Ellen Smith how she was found
Shot through the heart lying cold on the ground
Poor Ellen Smith how she was found
Shot through the heart lying cold on the ground

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Writer(s): Dp, David Essig

album: "Fiddle Tune X" (2014)

Billy Strings & Don Julin - Fiddle Tune X album cover

Beaumont Rag

(Instrumental)

Walk On Boy

Open Up Them Pearly Gates

That Home Far Away

Miss The Mississippi And You

The String Changing Tune

(Instrumental)

Salt Creek - Old Joe Clark

(Instrumental)

Sharecropper's Son

Lonesome Moonlight Waltz

(Instrumental)

I Am A Pilgrim

(Instrumental)

Poor Ellen Smith

Fiddle Tune X

(Instrumental)

Dos Banjos

I Ain't Gonna Work Tomorrow

Shady Grove

Little Maggie

How Mountain Girls Can Love

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"Poor Ellen Smith" lyrics

Billy Strings & Don Julin Lyrics