The Infanticide Of Marie Farrar lyrics

Marie Farrar. Orphaned minor
Rickets. Birthmarks none
Admits that she did kill her child
As follows here in summary

She visited a woman in a basement
When she was two months gone, as she reports it
And she had two injections there
Which hurt so bad but they did not abort it

AND you I beg make not your anger manifest
For all that live need help from all the rest

Nonetheless she paid her bill
Returned to work to scrub the floor and wash the plates
She knew that she would soon begin to show
She prayed to Mary, her hopes were great
Then on that morning six months later
As she began to scrub the stairs
A pain came clawing into her guts
She knew the thing would soon be there

She worked until after ten
She could not give birth in peace until the household slept
Then she bore a son like any mother's son
While she, now a mother, wept