the old baby farmer

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Reading woman takes in illegitimate babies for cash.
Strangles 40 or more, then dumps their bodies in the Thames.
Hanged at Newgate despite possible insanity.

lyrics

The old baby farmer has been executed,
time she was put out of her way,
She's a bad woman, it's not disputed,
words in favour no-one can anyone say.

seems rather hard to run down a woman,
she was hardly a woman at all,
To make a fine living is so inhuman,
Carousing in comfort 'afore her downfall.

The old baby farmer, the wretch Mrs Dyer,
At the Old Bailey her wages were paid,
times long ago we'd have made a big fire,
roasted so nicely that wicked old jade.

girls who fell from the path of virtue,
What could they do with a babe in arms?
the deed they committed could not be undo,
so the child was sent to the baby farm.

To all sad crimes there must be an ending,
Secrets like these forever can't last,
Say as you like, there is no defending,
The horrible deeds we have heard in the past.

That old baby farmer the wretch Mrs Dyer,
At the Old Bailey her wages is paid,
times long ago we'd have made a big fire,
roasted so nicely that wicked old jade.

What did she think as she stood on the gallows?
victims danced in front of her eyes,
Her black heart, it must have been callous,
rope round her neck - how quickly time flies.

Down through the trapdoor, quick disappearing,
The baby farmer has come to her harm,
was death's call she's a'hearing,
Maybe she went to the baby farm!

That old baby farmer the wretch Mrs Dyer,
At the Old Bailey her wages is paid,
long ago we'd have made a big fire,
roasted, so nicely, that wicked old jade.

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from the old baby farmer, released December 4, 2015
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