Bella The Butcher

Bella Gunness was a lady fair in Indiana state

She weighed about three hundred punds and that is quite some weight

That she was stronger than a man her neighbors all did own

She butchered hogs right easily and did it all alone

But hogs were just a sideline she indulged in now and then

Her favorite occupation was the butchering of men

To keep her cleaver busy Bella would run an ad

And men would come scurrying with all the cash they had

Now some say Belle killed only ten and some say forty two

It was hard to tell exactly but there were quite a few

Where Belle is now no one knows but my advice is fair

If a widow advertises for a man with cash beware

A Norwegian immigrant Belle Gunness lived in greed

She moved to America to start some families

Her husband and two babies were insured heavily

All three died in convulsion and agony

They died in agony from strychine poisoning

And no on was suspicious of Bella's activities

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Bella the butcher chopped up her men and buried them down by the hog pen

She took out insurance policies then she murderer her families

With a foster daughter and her two girls the farm they settled in

Then Bella the butcher spun the web once again

She found a man, farmer Gunness and married him

But he had no idea he's Bella's next victim

He didnät last as long as her first husband

He impregnated her but their union soon would end

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A heavy sausage grinder on a shelf fell on him

And hit him right between the eyes

That's what Bella sad happened

She took out some ads for hired hands and men to wed

And she had many responses to her ads the men had read

Men thinking being with Bella good thish were just ahead

But none of them knew their life was hanging by a thread

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The farm burned down they found dead kids and a woman with no head

They searched the grounds and then they found the dismembered buried dead

The kids were Bella's but they never found woman's head

It was assumed that it was Bella's, but others say she fled