1.

One day a dame slipped out of bed

and, over some small strife,

she severed through her husband's head

by slashing with a knife.

2.

 And then at once, she told her son

to mind he didn't say

about her deed to anyone

until she'd passed away.

3.

She said that if it got afloat,

she'd take the knife again,

and plunge it deep into his throat

and split it up in twain.

4.

Unknown to her, a man had passed

when she had done her crime.

With eyes aflame, he'd watched aghast,

and stayed there quite a time.

5.

Then off he ran to find some men

to catch this vile female:

to find her first, arrest her, then

to cart her off to jail.

6.

They went and found her in her bed,

and forced her and her son

to follow to the place they led,

by showing her a gun.

7.

They locked the prisoners up in jail

and outside left as guard

a tough and brawny, thick-set male,

with muscles big and hard.

8.

But there inside that beastly cell,

the mother sat with glee

while vowing that she'd eat as well,

her little son for tea.

9.

So thereupon with every ounce

of strength she ever had,

the wicked mother made a pounce

upon the luckless lad.

10.

She then proceeded, with great greed,

to take his eyes and tongue,

and ate them; so for these few deeds,

the wicked wretch was hung.