Oh, little did he think they’d kill him,

He had no thought he was to die,

Upon that fatal Saturday evening,

On the 9th day of July;

The villains in the carriage slew him,

For plunder Thomas Briggs was killed,

In a first-class carriage they did rob him,

And all around his blood was spilled.

Thomas Briggs was a faithful servant,

To Robarts, Lubbock and Company,