Doc Watson - Little Omie Wise Live At The Newport Folk Festivals / 1963 & 1964

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Come listen to my story, I’ll tell you no lies, how John Lewis did murder a\nlittle Omie Wise,\nHe asked her to meet him at Adams’s spring, said he’d bring her money and other\nfine things,\nSo fool-like she met him at Adams’s spring, no money he brought her nor other\nfine things\nJohn Lewis, John Lewis, won’t you tell me your mind, do you intend to marry me\nor leave me behind?\nLittle Omie, Little Omie, I will tell you my mind, my plan is to drown you and\nleave you behind,\nHave mercy on my baby and spare me my life, I’ll go home as a beggar and never\nbe your wife\nHe hugged her and he kissed her and turned her around and threw her in deep\nwater where he knew that she\nwould drown,\nIt was on one Thursday morning the rain came pouring down and they searched for\nOmie’s body but it\nnowhere could be found,\nTwo boys went a fishin' one fine summer day and they saw little Omie’s body go\nfloating away\nThey called for John Lewis to come to that place so he could see her body and\nthey could see his face,\nThough he made no confession they threw him in jail, no friend nor relation\nwould go on his bail