Bill and I were never same,
one without the other
And between us was a love
as strong as a man has for his brother
When we fell in love with Lucy Ann,
Bill and I were parted
For I was the winner of her heart
And that's when the trouble started
Oh, dig me a hole in the cold, ground
Dig me one and then another
For today I bury Lucy and
Tomorrow they hang my brother
I married my sweet Lucienne,
built a cabin on the hill
We were waiting on a little one,
it would name him after Bill
But last night when I came
home from town,
Lucienne was dying
A knife was buried in her breast
In a pool of blood she was lying
Oh, take me a whole of cocoa brown
Take me one and then another
For today I bury Lucy and
Tomorrow they hang my brother
She told me who'd done this awful thing,
and it chilled me through and through
My one and only brother was the only Bill
I knew Bill swore that he
would get revenge,
but fate can be so grim
He didn't know that Lucienne
was leaving me for him
Go dig me a hole of cold, ground
Dig me one and then another
For today I bury Lucienne
Tomorrow they hang my brother
For today I bury Lucy
and tomorrow they hang my brother.