Winter has come

To seal my fate

Just a year ago I took that final step

Took a gun and cut my sweet young lover down

The newspaper said that the bad and the beautiful

Carry the burden of love

Now I simply refuse to cry

With a secret I'll take to my grave

For I have but an hour to go

Now the hangman approaches death row

Oh Billy love your child has grown

I only hope that he won't be his mother's son

With a vein of madness poisoning his soul

Regrets I have none but the bad and the beautiful

Carry the burden of love

Now I simply refuse to cry

Goodbye to the world I love

You have done me no good, you know

My lullaby is a bell that tolls

As the hangman approaches death row

Now I simply refuse to cry