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Kristin Hersh – Poor Ellen Smith (1998) | Track profile | Dork

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Kristin Hersh
Murder, Misery and Then Goodnight
Poor Ellen Smith

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Poor Ellen Smith

Release date: 22nd October 1998

From Murder, Misery and Then Goodnight

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About This Track

"Poor Ellen Smith" is a track by Kristin Hersh, from the album Murder, Misery and Then Goodnight, released 22nd October 1998. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

Kristin Hersh

Kristin Hersh

Lyrics

Poor Ellen Smith

Come all you kind people, my story to hear

What happened to me in June of this year

It was poor Ellen Smith

And how she was found with a ball in her heart

Lying cold on the ground

If I could go home, home to stay

On poor Ellen's grave, some flowers I would lay

It was poor Ellen Smith

And how she was found with a ball in her heart

Lying cold on the ground

I come back this winter, my trial to stand

To live or to die as the law may command

It was poor Ellen Smith

And how she was found with a ball in her heart

Lying cold on the ground

It's true I'm in jail, I'm a prisoner now

But God is here with me and hears ever vow

It was poor Ellen Smith

And how she was found with a ball in her heart

Lying cold on the ground

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Track details

From Murder, Misery and Then Goodnight

1998

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Album

Murder, Misery and Then Goodnight

Release year

1998

—Mama's Gonna Buy
—Little Birdy
—Poor Ellen Smith
—Banks of the Ohio
—I Never Will Marry
—What'll We Do With the Baby-o
—Down in the Willow Garden
—Fly Around My Blue Eyed Girl
—Pretty Polly
—Whole Heap of Little Horses
—Sweet Roseanne
—Three Nights Drunk

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