A child was found
Asleep in the ground
Two men accused
Of putting him down
They were brothers in blood
Only one of them sung
A lullaby with a gun
A skeleton lying face-down was found
Wind tucked him in, while the dirt held him down
He ran from the fingers of plain
And ran until he finally became
A skeleton lying in chains
One brother fled
The other said:
"I killed no child
But take me instead."
The law paraded their ghost
And all the newspapers wrote
How they caught their man
The skeleton hanging from a maple tree
Scavengers sang til his flesh was free
Noose was tied, lying empty
He faced the fingers of plain
The skeleton hangs with no shame
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