I went into the Red-barn, and there I dug her grave.

With heart so light, she thought no harm, to meet him she did go

He murdered her all in the barn, and laid her body low:

After the horrible deed was done, she lay weltering in her gore,

Her bleeding mangled body he buried beneath the Red-barn floor.

Now all things being silent, her spirit could not rest,

She appeared unto her mother, who suckled her at her breast;

For many a long month or more, her mind being sore oppress’d,

Neither night or day she could not take any rest.

Her mother’s mind being so disturbed, she dreamt three nights o’er,