He did not wear his scarlet coat,
For blood and wine are red,
And blood and wine were on his hands
When they found him with the dead.


The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898) pt. 1, st. 1


He did not wear his scarlet coat, For blood and wine are red, And blood and wine were on his hands When they found him with the dead.

He did not wear his scarlet coat, For blood and wine are red, And blood and wine were on his hands When they found him with the dead.

He did not wear his scarlet coat, For blood and wine are red, And blood and wine were on his hands When they found him with the dead.

He did not wear his scarlet coat, For blood and wine are red, And blood and wine were on his hands When they found him with the dead.