My dying moments are drawing near,

When I am sentenc’d alas to die,

Upon a gallows gloomy and high.

Oh what s sight it will be to see,

A maiden die on the fatal tree.

I am a maiden in youth and bloom,

I a wretched murderer to die am doom’d,

And in the city of Salisbury,

My days must end on a dismal tree.

My little brother, a darling sweet,