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The Gravestone

The young Lady does stand and stare

Like someone without a care

But no one knows her secret heartache

And that the headstone is more than she can take

It bears her name from years ago

As the tears, begin to flow

Remembering her past life and the lover, she knew

Of how their love just grew and grew

Killed in a jealous rage they said

Whatever the reason she was found dead

In that Hay Barn that frosty winters night

Battered to death, a grizzly sight

Killed by a woman was the thought

Who sadly for Alice, was never caught?

She was just a happy soul just like all girls

With shining eyes just like a blue pearls

Lovely long hair curly and black

And a smile that would take any man aback

Her lover a Captain, a Kings Dragoon

Had arranged to meet her under the starry moon

When he arrived, he became so distraught it seems

At seeing his beloved Alice dead, the girl of his dreams

So overcome was our Captain bold

Sadly, he would never grow old

Took his pistol to his head

And shot himself and he was dead

Found together the following morning

By a farmer as the sun was dawning

Now buried together beneath the stone

Together forever never alone