Lulie Vars

Come all you young people and stand close around
 And listen to the story how Lulie Vars got drowned
 She loved this young John Collier, engaged to be his wife
 He ruined her reputation and then he took her life
 They went to Elkhorn City about sixty miles away
 He promised they would marry and their secret it would stay
 They went out for a little walk, hand-in-hand they strolled
 In the middle of December and the wind was blowin' cold
 They walked down by the river, still water it runs deep
 She could tell by the way he looked at her
 in the bottom she would sleep
 She threw her arms around him beggin' for her life
 "I'll go back to my mother if I can't be your wife"
 Poor Lulie, she went missin', nowhere could be found
 They searched the country over for miles and miles around
 John Collier joined the army, four months came and passed
 In the bottom of that river her body was found at last
 They took her from the river to a nearby town
 That railroad still around her neck weighed about thirty pounds
 When Lulie's mother got the news she was sitting in her home
 She quickly left her chair to bring her baby home
 John Colier was arrested, locked behind the bars
 He'll spend his whole life payin' for the murder of Lulie Vars