Thomas and Martha
The Lucksmiths * Track #7 On The Green Bicycle Case
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Thomas and Martha recounts famous author Thomas Hardy’s witnessing of Elizabeth Martha Brown’s execution. Martha was the last person publicly hanged in Dorchester, England.
Thomas Hardy was 16 at the time, but it has been speculated that this experience heavily inspired his later novel, Tess of th...
Thomas and Martha Lyrics
Dorchester, August 1856
I'm an old man now and ashamed of this
But I had to be in town for other reasons
I stood in a crowd of three or four thousand
The hood on her head and the rope around it
And summer's sometimes not the warmest season
A fine figure shrouded in black
Hung in the misty rain
Wheeled half-round and back
And her silk gown set off her shape
I'm an old man now and ashamed of this
But in Dorchester, August 1856
I saw hanged Martha Brown of Birdsmoorgate