The Kindness Of Strangers Lyrics - Murder Ballads - Nick Cave

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