Lilli Schull lyrics
by Uncle Tupelo



a great crowd has now gatheredall around the jail todayto see me executedand hear what I do saynow I must hang this morningfor the murder of Lilli Schullwhom I so cruelly murderedand her body shamefully burnedthe fire where I burned heris again now within my sighther lovely face recoveringand the fire that burned so brightthe cries of poor Lilliagain I can almost hearas she begged me not to kill herher life alone to sparenow I bow down to Jesusin penitential griefand I beg him now to save melike he did the dying thiefGod bless my aged parentswho mourn for me aloneand my wife and babywho will be left aloneit was then that I heard a whisperin a most gentle tonemy grave is one sufficientto save the vilest one