Clarence Ashley - Frankie Silvers lyrics

This dreadful, dark and dismal day Has swept my glories all away My sun goes down, my days are past And I must leave this world at last Oh! Lord, what will become of me? I am condemned you all now see To heaven or hell my soul must fly All in a moment when I die Judge Daniel has my sentence pa**'d Those prison walls I leave at last Nothing to cheer my drooping head Until I'm numbered with the dead But oh! that Dreadful Judge I fear Shall I that awful sentence hear: "Depart ye cursed down to hell And forever there to dwell"? I know that frightful ghosts I'll see Gnawing their flesh in misery And then and there attended be For murder in the first degree There shall I meet that mournful face Whose blood I spilled upon this place With flaming eyes to me he'll say "Why did you take my life away?" His feeble hands fell gently down His chattering tongue soon lost its sound To see his soul and body part It strikes with terror to my heart I took his blooming days away Left him no time to God to pray And if his sins fall on his head Must I not bear them in his stead? The jealous thought that first gave strife To make me take my husband's life For months and days I spent my time Thinking how to commit the crime And on a dark and doleful night I put his body out of sight With flames I tried him to consume But time would not admit it done You all see me and on me gaze Be careful how you spend your days And never commit this awful crime But try to serve your God in time My mind on solemn subjects roll My little child, God bless its soul All you that are of Adam's race Let not my faults this child disgrace Farewell good people you all now see What my bad conduct's brought on me To die of shame and disgrace Before this world of human race Awful indeed to think on my d**h In perfect health to lose my breath Farewell, my friend, I bid adieu Vengeance on me must now pursue Great God, how shall I be forgiven? Not fit for earth, not fit for heaven But little time to pray to God For now I try that awful road