Ballad of Regina

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Jim Zabloski

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Found a stone on Thirty-second street in a field all overgrown
Said “Here lies old poor Regina. Died tonight.”
By my house that’s laden marble with a porch of pearly gray
Made me wonder if the stone had more to write

Took a trip down to the college; asked the lady by the desk
If we looked up poor Regina, could we see
Found her name in county records, born in nineteen sixty-two
And her picture looked an awful lot like me

Seems Regina’s dad was wealthy, but he had a wandering eye
Paid the ladies at the parlor for some fun
And one lady took his fancy, so he spent entire nights
Till her warning of a child came undone

Ain’t it sad when you discover that the things you thought were true
Change your story to a poem that doesn’t rhyme
And the time arrives if you had only opened up your eyes
The truth you never knew was right in front of you
All the time

Said “Regina is her name, and you’re the father of the child,”
Then he cursed her for her planning to deceive
She demanded that he pay her lest she take it to the news
Then Regina’s dad bent down as if to leave

Pulled the leather strap he used to keep his denims in their place
And he wrapped it round her neck and then he squeezed
If Regina was his baby no one need to ever know
He had money, and could do just what he pleased

She lay dying in the parlor, crying baby at her side
Put the child in a wrap to calm her down
Then he drove them to the bridge over the river out of town
To remove the evidence and let them drown

First the madam took a tumble with the water rushing by
Tossed the body, then it disappeared from sight
As he opened up the blanket just to take one final look
What he saw turned him from murdering that night

Ain’t it sad when you discover that the things you thought were true
Change your story to a poem that doesn’t rhyme  
And the time arrives if you had only opened up your eyes
The truth you never knew was right in front of you
All the time

See, Regina had his smile, and her eyes were hazel too
As she reached up to his face as if to say
“See this birthmark on your face is like the one I also have
I’m your baby”, and the man just looked away

Wrapped Regina in the blanket, took her to a friend in town
With a house laden in marble at the time
Said to take care of Regina and I’ll pay you more than fair
Gave her money not to mention of the crime

Asked my Ma about Regina, and the stone out in the field
As she stood there like a beast out in the cold
Said she’d never given birth, and that Regina was the one
My life story started slowly to unfold

Seems Regina had a baby with a boy she never knew
And that grandpa came around to hide the lie
When the baby came, she lay there in the care of Grampa Joe
Though the baby lived, Regina had to die

So together they transpired; they had done this thing before
Made a plan to hide her body in the field
And the stone, just like my birthmark, told a story long and cold
That the tale of old Regina now revealed

Ain’t it sad when you discover that the things you thought were true
Change your story to a poem that doesn’t rhyme
And the time arrives if you had only opened up your eyes
The truth you never knew was right in front of you
All the --- 

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