For The Love of Ellen Moore

For The Love of Ellen Moore

The sun was going down on O’l Charleston town
Tomorrow would have been her wedding day
In the masion on the hill her body, is lyin’ still
Cold as ice upon the floor she lay

Ellen Moore loved Caleb Brown from the wrong side of town
Her parents told her it could never be
So she was to be wed to the bankers son instead
He was from a wealthy family

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But a woman shouldn’t marry for money
A man can only live with so much pain
He said what you waitin’ for, go an pull that gallo’s door
I’ll die for the love of Ellen Moore

When the lawmen came the boy was callin’ out her name
Sittin’ on the floor where Ellen lay
The Sherrif found the gun said Caleb, why you do son
For this hanus crime you’ll hang today

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For the truth was never heard, for Caleb never said a word
That night the two had planned on leavin’ town
Someone took them by suprise, with angry jealous eyes
The bankers son shot poor Ellen down

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Tonight I’ll be with my Ellen Moore