Feel So Bad The Kindness Of Strangers Lyrics

The Kindness Of Strangers Lyrics

They found Mary Bellows cuffed to the bed

With a rag in her mouth and a bullet in her head

O poor Mary Bellows



She'd grown up hungry, she'd grown up poor

So she left her home in Arkansas

O poor Mary Bellows



She wanted to see the deep blue sea

She drove across Tennessee

O poor Mary Bellows



She met a man along the way

He introduced himself as Richard Slade

O poor Mary Bellows



Poor Mary thought that she might die

When she saw the ocean for the first time

O poor Mary Bellows



She checked into a cheap little place

Richard Slade carried in her old suitcase

O poor Mary Bellows



"I'm a good girl, sir." she said to him

I couldn't possibly permit you in

O poor Mary Bellows



Slade tipped his head and winked his eye

And turned away without goodbye

O poor Mary Bellows



She sat on her bed and thought of home 

With the sea breeze whistling all alone

O poor Mary Bellows



In hope and loneliness she crossed the floor

And undid the latch on the front door

O poor Mary Bellows



They found her cuffed to the bed

A rag in her mouth, and a bullet in her head

O poor Mary Bellows



So mothers keep your girls at home

Don't let them go on a journey out alone

Tell them this world is full of danger

And to shun the company of strangers

O poor Mary Bellows

O poor Mary Bellows