Little Susie / Pie Jesu

Somebody killed little Susie
 The girl with the tune
 Who sings in the daytime at noon
 She was there screaming
 Beating her voice in her doom
 But nobody came to her soon
 A fall down the stairs
 Her dress torn
 Oh the blood in her hair
 A mystery so sullen in air
 She lie there so tenderly
 Fashioned so slenderly
 Lift her with care, oh the blood in her hair
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 Everyone came to see
 The girl that now is dead
 So blind stare the eyes in her head
 And suddenly a voice from the crowd said
 This girl lived in vain
 Her face bear such agony, such strain
 But only the man from next door
 Knew Little Susie and how he cried
 As he reached down
 To close Susie's eyes
 She lie there so tenderly
 Fashioned so slenderly
 Lift her with care
 Oh the blood in hair
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 It was all for God's sake
 For her singing the tune
 For someone to feel her despair
 To be damned to know hoping is dead and you're doomed
 Then to scream outAnd nobody's there
 
 She knew no one cared
 Father left home, poor mother died
 Leaving Susie alone
 Grandfather's soul too had flown
 No one to careJust to love her
 How much can one bear
 Rejecting the needs in her prayers
 Neglection can kill
 Like a knife in your soul
 Oh it will
 But Susie fought so hard to live
 She lie there so tenderly
 Fashioned so slenderly
 Lift her with care
 So young and so fair