Dave Gunning - Pills of White Mercury lyrics

As I was walking by the banks of the Ugie Come my dear fellow and a story I will tell I spied a dear comrade, dressed in white flannel Dressed in white flannel and cruel was his fate For the mercury was beating, the limestone was reeking His tongue all inflamed hung over his chin With a hole in his bosom, his teeth were a closin' Bad luck to the girl who gave it to him And had she but told me, when she dishonored me Had she but told me of it in time I might have been cured by those pills of white mercury But now I'm a young man cut down in my prime My parents they warned me and oftimes they chided With those young flash girls do not sport and play But I never listened, no I never heeded I just carried on in my own wicked way And had she but told me, when she dishonored me Had she but told me of it in time I might have been cured by those pills of white mercury But now I'm a young man cut down in my prime It was down on the corner two flash girls were taking One to the other in a whipser did say There goes that young man who once was so jolly But now for his sins his poor body must pay Oh doctor, dear doctor before your departure Take all these bottles of mercury away And send for the minister to say a prayer over me Then you can lay more poor body in the clay Now get you six fellows to carry my coffin And six pretty faid maids to bear up my pall And give each of them a bunch of red roses So when they pa** by me they'll not know the smell And had she but told me, when she dishonored me Had she but told me of it in time I might have been cured by those pills of white mercury But now I'm a young man cut down in my prime And had she but told me, oh when she dishonored me Had she but told me of it in time I might have been cured by those pills of white mercury But now I'm a young man cut down in my prime Had she but told me I might have been cured Instead I'm a young man cut down in my prime