Lyrics - The Kindness Of Strangers by Cave Nick

They found
Mary
Bellows cuffed tot he bed
With a rag in her mouth and a bullet in her head
O poor
Mary
Bellows
She'd grown up hungry, she'd grown up poor
So she left her home in
Arkansas
O poor
Mary
Bellows
She wanted to see the deep blue see
She drove across
Tennessee
O poor
Mary
Bellows
She met a man along the way
He introduced himself as
Richard
Slade
O poor
Mary
Bellows
Poor
Mary thought that she might die
When she saw the ocean for the first time
O poor
Mary
Bellows
She checked into a cheap little place
Richard
Slade carried in her old suitcase
O poor
Mary
Bellows'
I'm a good girl, sir," she said to him
I couldn't possibly permit you in
O poor
Mary
Bellows
Slade tipped his hat and winked his eye
And turned away without goodbye
O poor
Mary
Bellows
She sat on her bed and thought of home
With the sea breeze whistling all alone
O poor
Mary
Bellows
In hope and loneliness she crossed the floor
And undid the latch on the front door
O poor
Mary
Bellows
They found her the next day cuffed to the bed
A rag in her mouth and a bullet in her head
O poor
Mary
Bellows
So mothers keep your girls at home
Don't let them journey out alone
Tell them the world is full of danger
And to shun the company of strangers
O poor
Mary
Bellows
O poor
Mary
Bellows

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