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All good people I pray you attend
Poor John Lomas his life at an end.
He was condemned to die.
He was a great master, so very kind,
But his fair mistress had evil in her mind.
He was condemned to die.
Willingly I took his place
With my fair love
Willingly I stole his face
and soaked it in blood.
It was the mistress and the murder for love.
This fair mistress found him asleep.
It's time to kill him then my heart you can keep.
He was condemned to die.
Three times I struck him over his head.
It was my first murder, a blood soaken bed.
He was condemned to die.
Willingly I took his place
With my fair love
Willingly I stole his face
and soaked it in blood.
It was the mistress and the murder for love.
Into my room then I did return,
The crime committed, my conscience it did burn.
I was condemned to die.
In a dark Jailhouse I would remain,
For poor John Lomas now it is my name.
I am condemned to die.
Willingly I took his place
With my fair love
Willingly I stole his face
and soaked it in blood.
It was the mistress and the murder.
It was the mistress and the murder.
It was the mistress and the murder.
The mistress and the murder.
Poor John Lomas his life at an end.
He was condemned to die.
But his fair mistress had evil in her mind.
He was condemned to die.
With my fair love
Willingly I stole his face
and soaked it in blood.
It was the mistress and the murder for love.
It's time to kill him then my heart you can keep.
He was condemned to die.
It was my first murder, a blood soaken bed.
He was condemned to die.
With my fair love
Willingly I stole his face
and soaked it in blood.
It was the mistress and the murder for love.
The crime committed, my conscience it did burn.
I was condemned to die.
For poor John Lomas now it is my name.
I am condemned to die.
With my fair love
Willingly I stole his face
and soaked it in blood.
It was the mistress and the murder.
It was the mistress and the murder.
It was the mistress and the murder.
The mistress and the murder.
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I love this song, the percussion is ace and the lyrics are fun to sing along with at the top of your voice.
In 1812, at Hankelow in Cheshire, a servant named John Lomas murdered his master, a prosperous farmer named George Morrey. Lomas had apparently been having an affair with Morrey's wife Edith, and claimed to have carried out the murder on her instruction. Both Lomas and Edith Morrey were subsequently executed, although Morrey's execution was delayed until after the birth of her child, thought to be Lomas's.