An early American sheet music.
1799 – date unsure.
Related to the original Crazy Jane ballad and The Ghost of Crazy Jane.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by David Pike:
Lyrics
1. O’er the gloomy woods resounding
Far, far from the joyless vale
Deep the heavy death bell sounding
Tolls a luckless Maiden’s knell
Nearer on the low wind floating
Sweetly flows the tuneful strain
Pity a choir dirge devoting
To the Shade of Crazy Jane
2. In the grove where Erst her ditty:
Wild and loud the mourner rais’d,
While the virgins mov’d with pity,
Wept to find poor Jane was Craz’d.
In that grove in plaintive numbers,
Slowly falls the Solemn strain,
Where the hapless Maiden slumbers,
Where in Peace rests CRAZY JANE
3. In that Grove where Henry left her,
Bleeding with Love’s cruel smart,
When despair of sense bereft her,
When affliction broke her heart.
In that Grove forbear to languish,
Gentle Virgins cease the strain,
Death has lull’d from grief and anguish,
Love’s sad victim CRAZY JANE