Macabre - Bella The Butcher lyrics

Bella Gunness was a lady fair in Indiana state She weighed about three hundred punds and that is quite some weight That she was stronger than a man her neighbors all did own She butchered hogs right easily and did it all alone But hogs were just a sideline she indulged in now and then Her favorite occupation was the butchering of men To keep her cleaver busy Bella would run an ad And men would come scurrying with all the cash they had Now some say Belle k**ed only ten and some say forty two It was hard to tell exactly but there were quite a few Where Belle is now no one knows but my advice is fair If a widow advertises for a man with cash beware A Norwegian immigrant Belle Gunness lived in greed She moved to America to start some families Her husband and two babies were insured heavily All three died in convulsion and agony They died in agony from strychine poisoning And no on was suspicious of Bella's activities Bella the butcher chopped up her men and buried them down by the hog pen She took out insurance policies then she murderer her families With a foster daughter and her two girls the farm they settled in Then Bella the butcher spun the web once again She found a man, farmer Gunness and married him But he had no idea he's Bella's next victim He didnät last as long as her first husband He impregnated her but their union soon would end A heavy sausage grinder on a shelf fell on him And hit him right between the eyes That's what Bella sad happened She took out some ads for hired hands and men to wed And she had many responses to her ads the men had read Men thinking being with Bella good thish were just ahead But none of them knew their life was hanging by a thread The farm burned down they found dead kids and a woman with no head They searched the grounds and then they found the dismembered buried dead The kids were Bella's but they never found woman's head It was a**umed that it was Bella's, but others say she fled