The Bad Girl

[Verse 1]
When I was a young girl I used to seek pleasure
When I was a young girl I used to drink ale
First to the alehouse, then to the jailhouse
Right out of the jailhouse and into my grave

[Verse 2]
If he had but told before he discard me
If he had but told me, told me in time
I could have got salts and pills and white mercury
But now I'm a young girl cut down in my prime

[Verse 3]
Come Mama, come Papa, come sit down beside me
Come sit you down by me and pity my case
My poor heart is aching, my sad heart is breaking
My body is salve-aidеd, and I'm bound to die

[Verse 4]
When I was a young girl I used to seek plеasure
When I was a young girl I used to drink ale
First to the alehouse, then to the jailhouse
Right out of the jailhouse and into my grave