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A is for Audrey, a cute little thing
with a strange fascination for wire and string
One minute her brother was asleep in his bed
the next minute he hung from the ceiling fan dead
B is for Bradley whose parents had money
other kids called him spoiled, they thought it was funny
The boys would all tease him when he went to school
now they're floating face down in his dad's swimming pool
C is for Cecil whose talent was baking
With a mother so eager to start the partaking
Until one day she whipped up a sweet "special" pie
The arsenic and spice caused dear mommy to die
D is for Danny who each day in school
was treated unfairly by a teacher so cruel
But Danny soon put teacher's cruelty to rest
with a sharp pair of scissors buried deep in the chest
E is for Eva, whose best friend was Gus
her kitten, who sadly, got hit by a bus
so out for revenge, she followed the driver
and buried a few dozen nails deep inside her
F is for Flora who hated her maid
so she snuck up on her doing dishes one day
It was such a sad day when she went in the ground
no one knew if she'd scalded or if she had drowned
G is for Gerald whose mom always found
out what he had done when she wasn't around
when he realized his neighbors were who would tell her
he strangled them both and threw them in the cellar
H is for Hazel who was treated so badly
by her two step sisters who had just joined the family
so she came up behind them and into their backs
was plunged one a knife blade, the other an ax
I is for Isabelle cute and petite
still, she lured her cousin out into the street
Her cousin had said that she couldn’t be long
and the last thing she heard was the ice cream truck’s song
J is for Jerry whose hobby was sewing
and he practiced his skills without anyone knowing
When his childish playmates would start being mean
he'd sew up their mouths so that they couldn't scream
K is for Kassandra, Kassandra liked John
but Johnny was taken by Mary Sue Dawn
So Kassandra hid out by her house with a knife
and that was the last day of Mary Sue's life
L is for Liz, an only child till her mother
gave birth to a baby, her new little brother
Everything seemed to be going just great
till the poor baby drowned in the pond "by mistake"
M is for May whose family was poor
so one day she'd stolen some gum at the store
A clerk had been watching so May snuck behind her
and head first she went down into the meat grinder
N is for Noah whose old uncle Francis
would give inappropriate looks and advances
So he locked him upstairs and when questioned would say
"Oh those must be squirrels, just wait, they'll go away"
O is for Oscar, a feisty young boy
who's mean old school teacher he loved to annoy
When she tried to scold him she lost the battle
he beat her head in with her very own paddle
P is for Prudence who hated her name
she knew that her parents were the ones to blame
So she slipped them some pills and when they got tired
she tied them both down and set them on fire
Q is for Quentin who's mean babysitter
would come when his parents would go out for dinner
No one was sure what to think of things when
they'd found she had choked on his toy army men
R is for Ralph, skinny and shy
the kids at school teased him, he didn’t know why
So he waited till nighttime and then one by one
he snuck in their houses and cut out their tongues
S is for Sara, a true daddy's girl
until his assorted affairs did unfurl
So angered she was at his horrible games
that only she knew where to find his remains
T is for Travis a lanky young lad
who despised most all of the family he had
So he rigged up a bomb and declined a car ride
at the funeral he giggled while everyone cried
U is for Uriel who was always so sweet
till one day a stranger mugged her on the street
she grabbed for his ankles and the man hit his head
she got back her things and the man wound up dead
V is for Vincent, a child of ten
who's playmates would tease him again and again
He never forgot the mean things they had said
and he kept all their bones hidden under his bed
W is for Warren, a disgruntled youth
who stuffed his old aunt in a telephone booth
that wouldn't mean much except for the fact
that her head was wrapped up in a grocery sack
X is for Xerxes a little boy who
loved taking field trips to the town’s local zoo
but when one of his classmates refused to behave
he angrily tossed him into the bear cave
Y is for Yancy who's stuck up big sister
came home for the summer, their family had missed her
They gifted presents and attention to show her
and Yancy ran her down with the riding lawn mower
Z is for Zinnia who hated girl scouts
but her mother insisted she went on camp outs
so she took off her sash and she fashioned a gag
and smothered the scout leader in her own sleeping bag