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Come all you tenderhearted
Your attention I will call
I'll tell you how it started
Please listen one and all

Last Wednesday night, there was a light
Seen shining on a hill
A mother ran with all her might
While everything was still

She went into a neighbor's house
Some hundred yards away
She set down to talk to them awhile
But she did not mean to stay

Don't stay too long, dear mother there
For we'll be lonesome here
I'll get some liniment she said
Then I'll return again

But when she started home again
Her house was in a’flame
She cried, Oh Lord, my babies are gone
And I'm the one to blame

She bursted all asunder then
And the flames rolled overhead
Their little bones lay on the ground
And they lay face to face

Each other did entwine
Each other did embrace