《The Infanticide of Marie Farra》歌词

[00:00:02] The Infanticide Of Marie Farra - Weddings Parties Anything

[00:00:08] Marie Farrar Orphaned minor

[00:00:11] Rickets Birthmarks none

[00:00:14] Admits that she did kill her child

[00:00:18] As follows here in summary

[00:00:22] She visited a woman in a basement

[00:00:25] When she was two months gone as she reports it

[00:00:29] And she had two injections there

[00:00:32] Which hurt so bad but they did not abort it

[00:00:36] AND you I beg make not your anger manifest

[00:00:43] For all that live need help from all the rest

[00:00:51] Nonetheless she paid her bill

[00:00:54] Returned to work to scrub the floor

[00:00:56] And wash the plates

[00:00:58] She knew that she would soon begin to show

[00:01:01] She prayed to Mary her hopes were great

[00:01:04] Then on that morning six months later

[00:01:08] As she began to scrub the stairs

[00:01:11] A pain came clawing into her guts

[00:01:15] She knew the thing would soon be there

[00:01:19] AND you I beg make not your anger manifest

[00:01:25] For all that live need help from all the rest

[00:01:34] She worked until after ten

[00:01:37] She could not give birth in peace until

[00:01:38] The household slept

[00:01:41] Then she bore a son like any mother's son

[00:01:44] While she now a mother wept

[00:01:48] She was not like other mothers are

[00:01:51] There are no valid grounds why we

[00:01:52] Should mock her

[00:01:54] Then the child began to cry

[00:01:58] Which vexed her so she said

[00:02:01] She beat it with her fists both blind and wild

[00:02:05] Til it was quiet and it was dead

[00:02:08] She took the body into bed

[00:02:11] She Slept with it for the rest of the night

[00:02:15] And in the morning when the household was out

[00:02:18] She hid it in the laundry shed

[00:02:20] Where it was out of sight

[00:02:22] AND you I beg make not your anger manifest

[00:02:29] For all that live need help from all the rest

[00:02:37] Marie Farrar died in a penitentiary

[00:02:41] An unwed mother judged by law

[00:02:44] And she will show how all that lives lives frailly

[00:02:51] And you who bear your sons

[00:02:52] In laundered linen sheets

[00:02:54] And speak of your pregnancies as a blessed state

[00:02:57] She never damned the outcast and the weak

[00:03:01] Her sin was heavy her sorrow great

[00:03:04] Her sin was heavy her sorrow great

[00:03:08] Before I beg make not your anger manifest

[00:03:15] For all that live need help from all the rest