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"As I am on my dying bed and in bed I must die,
And hear me fore I'll face my God, the truth I won't deny;
Young Henry Green has poisoned me, come quickly for him send,
But still I love him just as well as when he was my friend."
Young Henry Green was taken his dying wife to see,
Three times she said, "Dear Henry, were you ever deceived by me?"
She gazed on him one loving look and fell into death's moan,
He gazed on her with tearful eyes and silent left the room.
Inquests held over the body held according to the laws,
It's asserted by a doctor that poison was the cause;
Young Henry Green was taken and lodged into a jail,
To wait there for his day of trial, the court would take no bail.
And when his day of trial came he was marched up to the stand,
To answer for the blackest crime committed in our land;
Three times he pleaded innocent, he bid his friends good-bye,
He was sentenced by Judge Parker and was condemned to die.
Sung by Pat Murphy (b.1887) of Calvert, and by Will O'Brien (b.ca.1875) of Cape Broyle, NL, and published in MacEdward Leach And The Songs Of Atlantic Canada © 2004 Memorial University of Newfoundland Folklore and Language Archive (MUNFLA). Two variants were also collected by Ken Peacock and published as The Murder Of Miss Wyatt in Songs Of The Newfoundland Outports, Volume 2, pp.624-626, by the National Museum of Canada (1965) Crown Copyrights Reserved.
Note: Henry Green was hanged in 1845 for poisoning Mary Wyatt in Berlin, New York.
