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Sweet Fanny Adams

from Through Lonesome Woods by The Brammel Kites

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A Brammel Kites original, the lyrics are from a poem (author unknown) written after the gruesome murder of a young girl, Fanny Adams, in the town of Alton in Hampshire, in 1867. Whilst the subject matter is tragic, the slightly overzealous way in which the lyrics progress is ever so slightly leaning on the melodramatic side...

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You parents dear, who love your little children,
Pray listen a while unto me.
I once had a daughter like an angel,
But now from all trouble she is free.

Twas on Saturday, the twenty-fourth of August,
My Fanny and her sister went to play
With another little girl, Minnie Warren,
Little thinking of danger on their way...

Shall I never see thee more, my dearest Fanny?
The child that I so fondly did love
Was slain and cut to pieces by a villain,
But now she's in heaven above.

But soon they met with young Frederick Baker,
Who is a clerk in solitude, we hear
His parents, well-to-do and much respected
At Alton in the county of Hampshire.

Three halfpence the monster gave the children,
To go sweetmeats for to buy,
My Fanny by the hand he dragged, bewildered,
To the hollow as she bitterly did cry!

Shall I never see thee more, my dearest Fanny?
The child that I so fondly did love
Was slain and cut to pieces by a villain,
But now she's in heaven above.

When the children came home without my Fanny,
The neighbours searched the fields all around.
In the hop-yard, the head with the eyes out,
And the left ear cut off upon the ground!

Both arms and one leg cut from the body,
All scattered about on the ground.
But far worse than this the fiend committed,
For some parts have never yet been found...

Shall I never see thee more, my dearest Fanny?
The child that I so fondly did love
Was slain and cut to pieces by a villain,
But now she's in heaven above.

To think that he so cruelly misuse her,
My child, scarce eight years of age
Was slain and cut to pieces by a villain,
But now he's lying silent in the grave.

Shall I never see thee more, my dearest Fanny?
The child that I so fondly did love
Was slain and cut to pieces by a villain,
But now she's in heaven above.

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from Through Lonesome Woods, released September 19, 2020

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The Brammel Kites are an a capella folk duo from the South of England. They share a love of singing, walking and dry humour - but somehow they always end up singing about drinking or fairs...

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