At Horsemonger lane on the scaffold high,

For a cruel murder I was doomed to die.

James Longhurst, it is my name,

I’ve brought myself to grief & shame

Through the dreadful deed that I had done,

At Churchill field, near Guildford town

It was in last June, the twenty-eighth

I did this deed as I now state;

An innocent child I there did slay,

And with a knife took her life away.