Down a dark, untravelled street
And by a house all boarded up,
And I asked him as I passed him by,
what brings you to this place?
For the lamplight clearly showed
his pale and haunted face
He said a woman lived here long ago,
I remember she wore a light blue
dress the night I came to call
In one hand I had a diamond ring,
He said, I do not dress in prison blues
But wherever I go, whatever I do
And his words, they made me back awake
He said, you have nothing to fear from me
For you're looking at a man whose soul
was damned throughout eternity
And in my dreams I see her still,
And I wake up in a cold sweat,
the flames of hell around my bed
He said I do not dress in prison blues,
Wherever I go, whatever I do,
You can carve it on my headstone,
that all may read it plain
This dust that once was flesh and bone,
