“Whip-poor-will! whip-poor-will!”
And again it was repeated,
“Whip-poor-will! whip-poor-will!”
“Don’t whip me; O, don’t whip me!”
Cried the trembling little lad;
“And I’ll never drown a kitty,
And I never will be bad.”
But the voice above kept screaming,
“Whip-poor-will! whip-poor-will!”
Though poor Willie begged for mercy,