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



She left her home in Arkansas



O poor Mary Bellows 







She wanted to see the deep blue sea



She travelled 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 hat 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 the next day 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 journey all alone



Tell them this world is full of danger



And to shun the company of strangers



O poor Mary Bellows



O poor Mary Bellows