Omie Wise

You promised you'd meet me/Down at Adam's spring
 And bring me some money/And other fine things
 No money, no money,/Let this be thy fate
 We will go and get married/It'll be no disgrace
 Just get on behind me/And away we will ride
 Till we come to yon city/Where I'll make you my bride
 She got on behind him/And away they did ride
 Till they came to the river/Where water falls wide
 Little Omie, Little Omie,/I'll tell you my mind
 My mind is to drown you/And leave you behind
 Go pity, go pity,/Go pity cried she
 No pity, no pity,/No pity have I
 He beat her, he choked her/Till she scarcely could stand
 Then he threw her in the river/Below the milldam
 Little Omie were a missing/Nowheres could be found
 Her friends and relations/All gathered around
 Her mother kept a crying/Till at last I heard her say
 Jimmy Lewis has killed her/He's now run away
 He's up on deep river/as I understand
 They've got him in prison/For killing a man
 They've got him in prison/ bound down to the ground
 He has made his confession/he's got it wrote down
 You can kill me or hang me/ for I am the man
 That drownded little Omie/ below the milldam