Peaches and Crime Hellmira Lyrics Peaches And Crime lyrics

In the state of New York within the Chemung County Line
Is the city of Elmira Sitting small neat and fine
There you'll wind a women's college and a church steeple high
And a prison camp for rebels from a war of days gone by

Whoooah! Hellmira! Hellmira.

There the graycoats starved & languished dying far from home and ken
For they'd fought to break the union and to chain the souls of men
There boys in blue stood guarding, cold and as heartless as could be
As Christ died to make men holy they would kill to make men free

Now the war and all its warriors are buried on the hill

But the devil's found Elmira, you will find him waiting still
For all sense to be forgotten in the quarrellings of men
Raises guns whips and cudgels and he'll feast on souls again

Hellmira's the devil's town
He's waiting to drag you down
If you march to sin and war
You'll join his ranks forever more
Hellmira's the devils town